Neighborhood guides
Every Fordham & Ralston community sits inside a neighborhood with real history and real character. These guides cover what each one is like to live in — the landmarks, the food, the trails, and the apartments we operate there.
46202 — Indianapolis
Victorian landmarks one mile from Monument Circle
The Old Northside is a National Register historic district about one mile north of Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis, bounded roughly by 12th and 16th Streets between Pennsylvania Street and the Monon Trail. Together with neighboring Herron-Morton Place, it holds one of the city's richest collections of Victorian architecture.
46219 — Indianapolis
A 500-acre historic district five miles east of downtown
Irvington is a 500-acre National Register historic district about five miles east of downtown Indianapolis along East Washington Street — the old National Road. Platted in 1870 and named for author Washington Irving, it was designed with winding, park-like streets that still set it apart from the city grid today.
46205 — Indianapolis
Historic homes and greenway trails four miles north of downtown
Mapleton-Fall Creek sits about four miles north of downtown Indianapolis, bounded by Fall Creek and the Meridian Street corridor. First settled as Sugar Grove in 1843, the area grew into one of the city's prestige addresses in the early 20th century, when stately mansions and luxury apartment buildings rose along Meridian Street — home to figures like U.S. Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks.
46201 — Indianapolis
Indianapolis' first planned suburb — esplanades, fountains, Victorians
Woodruff Place is Indianapolis' first planned suburban neighborhood, founded in 1872 by civil engineer James O. Woodruff about a mile east of downtown. His vision — three broad drives with landscaped esplanades, cast-iron fountains, and statuary running down their centers — survives intact, making the neighborhood feel like a Victorian garden district hidden inside the city.
46222 — Indianapolis
The near westside's redeveloped landmark campus
Central State is the redeveloped 100-plus-acre campus of the former Central State Hospital (1848–1994) on Indianapolis' near west side, set within the Near Westside and Hawthorne neighborhoods along West Washington Street. The master-planned redevelopment has turned the grounds' mature trees and landmark buildings into one of the west side's most distinctive places to live.
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