Ulen Window Treatment, Lebanon, IN

Local Window Treatment Experience in Ulen

Ulen housing: 53 contributing buildings, four styles, 1924 to 1963

Ulen's houses were built around a club rather than along a road, which is how 54 housing units come to occupy 147 acres at a density of 900.0 per square mile. Individual lot dimensions were never published in any source we could reach, so we don't quote them. What is on record is the district itself: listed 2015, 53 contributing buildings, a period of significance running from about 1924 to 1963, and four named styles. Two story period revival predominates, with a Ranch component at the later end. That one sentence is the whole reason a Ulen quote takes longer than a production subdivision quote. The plan sets are all different because there were no plan sets.

Price is the other thing not separately reported here. There's no published Ulen price band. The Elmwood golf community across the city lists at $850,000 to $1,500,000 against a Lebanon median sale price of $303,597, which tells you the order of magnitude for club adjacent property without pretending to be a Ulen figure. Home sizes weren't sourced either. What we can say with confidence is that a 1930s Tudor Revival house in this district carries more distinct opening shapes than any production house in Boone County, and that the count runs 20 to 30 with very few repeats inside a single house.

Ulen window conditions: leaded units, arched heads and open fairway

The hardest condition in Ulen, and the one that decides an entire specification, is the inward swinging leaded and multi light unit on the Tudor Revival houses. When the operable leaf swings into the room, an inside mount at that opening is finished before it starts. There's nowhere for the treatment to sit. The answer is an outside mount set above and beyond the opening, with enough projection that the leaf clears the stack and enough overlap that you're not looking at a bright line down each side. Colonial Revival adds fanlights and sidelights. Mediterranean Revival adds arched openings, deep reveals and sometimes a round headed stair window.

Square check next. These buildings are 63 to 102 years old, so out of square is the expectation rather than the exception, and there's a second layer here that a 1970s Lebanon ranch doesn't have: the opening and the leaded unit inside it can be out of square independently of each other. Both get measured. Nothing built in a 1924 to 1963 period revival district has a two story glass wall, so stack height is a room by room question rather than a great room question. And on the course side, low sun crosses open mown ground with no shade structure at all, which is where openness factor earns its keep.

What we specify in Ulen, and why it isn't one shutter package

There's no single Ulen answer because there's no single Ulen house. A 1930s Tudor Revival with inward swinging leaded units and a 1958 Ranch with a wide picture window need opposite mounting decisions, and both sit inside the same 53-building National Register district. What runs through all of it: outside mount thinking, cordless or motorized operation given a resident median age of 51.8, and treatments suited to houses built before production window schedules existed. Nationally, custom interior work runs $250 to $2,600 per window, shutters $175 to $800 and drapery $300 to $4,000. Lead time is 2 to 5 weeks, and nothing about this decision needs rushing.

Ulen, the Diddel course and Lebanon schools

No street names inside Ulen were published in any source we could reach, which is why you'll find no street list on this page. We'd rather leave it empty than invent one. What is on record is the setting: the Ulen Country Club's 18-hole course was the first Bill Diddel ever designed, it opened in 1924, and the town incorporated around it five years later. The Ulen Historic District joined the National Register in 2015. School assignment runs through the Lebanon Community School Corporation, with Lebanon Middle School and Lebanon Senior High School above it, though Ulen is a separate municipality and assignment wasn't separately verified, so confirm it by address.

Who approves anything in Ulen, and who doesn't

Ulen has no homeowners association on record, and the Ulen Country Club is a private club rather than an association: membership isn't a covenant on the property. The part people get wrong is jurisdiction. Ulen is its own incorporated town with its own government, so Ulen's ordinances govern inside its 0.23 square miles rather than Lebanon's. Don't assume Lebanon's Historic Preservation Commission reaches in here, and don't assume it doesn't either, because that was never verified. Indiana Landmarks puts the other half plainly: National Register listing on its own restricts nothing for an owner spending private money. Before anything exterior goes up on a house in the district, ask the Town of Ulen directly.

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