house: Favorite Friday: Getting to know Downtown Neighborhoods

If you see this building...stop! And come in and check it out!

Well, it's that time of year again. For the third year in a row, all the downtown glitterati (and their hangers-on) will make their way to the Harrison Center for the Arts for the Urban Times Neighborhood Fair held during September's First Friday. If you know anyone on the fence or considering a move or investment in downtown, this is the event you won't want to miss!

It's sort of like speed dating, except the chances of a love connection are WAY higher! What's not to love when so many historic neighborhoods are gathered in one place? There will be tables/ representatives set up from each of 17 neighborhoods:
*Lockerbie Square * Cole-Noble * Cottage Home * Chatham Arch *Meridian Park * Herron-Morton Place * Old Northside * Fall Creek Place * Englewood * Springdale * St. Clair Place * Watson-McCord * Woodruff Place * Mapleton-Fall Creek * Arsenal Heights * Emerson Heights

A variety of downtown schools, organizations and businesses will also be represented, including this old gray mare. We will be holding down the fort in the gym after you are done perusing the amazing artists throughout the rest of the property. I welcome the opportunity to talk history, research, preservation, architecture, Hoosier Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, genealogy, or any other areas of interest with anyone so inclined. For the one person paying attention, I am also going to be unveiling a sneak preview of an addition to this blog, coming soon!

For what it's worth, please indulge me momentarily as I wax poetical over three of my favorites Harrison Center artists while I'm at it: Kyle Ragsdale It will be of no surprise that I love his pieces in the "Historical Fiction" collection. (And to stray further off topic, some of my favorite pieces of his are also at one of my favorite Indianapolis restaurants, Zest--yum!), Kipp Normand who makes some of the most captivating and compelling repurposed/ reinvented stuff I've ever seen. And the whimsical and cotton-candy sweet wonderland of Emma Overman.