City Council

This ordinance amends Chapter 8.20 of the Bloomington Municipal Code entitled "List
of Designated Historic and Conservation Districts" in order to designate 'The Cottage Grove Conservation District," a neighborhood of 122 properties, in the City of Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, as a conservation district. The majority of structures in the proposed district date from the years before and after World War I and are built in the folk Victorian and Queen Anne styles representative of this period in Bloomington's history. Houses from the late 191 Os and 1920s are mostly craftsman style, with a conspicuous number of limestone Tudor Revival houses. Many of the pre-war houses were built by employees of the Showers Brothers Furniture Company and bear the hallmarks of carpenter built folk housing, while many of the larger post-war houses are associated with Bloomington's booming limestone industry. The neighborhood demonstrates a high degree of integrity and many notable houses.