2021 Midtown Holiday Home Tour - presented by Ivy Tech Community College

3650 Spring Hollow Road,Indianapolis IN 46208

13 November, 2021

Description

The Midtown Holiday Home Tour is your chance to visit three exceptional residences decorated for the winter holidays by local designers. The Parry Mansion, 3650 Spring Hollow, in Golden HillHomeowners: Dr. J.P. & Mrs. Shannon Gentile Decorators: Mrs. Gentile and Charles Mayer Home Sponsor: Bedel Financial Classic cars: 1913 Overland Roadster Model 69, Matt Whetstone; 1929 Stutz Dual Cowl Phaeton, Turner Woodard. Parry Mansion Video Preview Completed in 1903, the Parry Mansion was originally known as Golden Hill; named after the 100-acre site David and Hessie Parry purchased for their estate. The couple filled their 15,000 square foot home with imported marble, exotic woods, artisan carved fireplace fronts, the finest tiles and moldings, a third floor ballroom with a ceiling ornamented with frolicking cherubs, and an 1,100 square foot garage. The home was used as a set for the recent film, Mayberry Man. For Day of Ticket Sales Begin the Tour at this home. Debit/Credit Sales Only, No Cash Please. The Booth Tarkington Home, 4270 Meridian StreetHomeowners: Tim & Doris Anne Sadler Decorators: Jenni Egger Designs and Bliss Event Design Home Sponsor: Mark Holeman Landscape Classic cars: 1941 Cadillac Convertible Coupe, Jeff Shively 1954 Cadillac Eldorado Special Sports Convertible, Joe Alberts Booth Tarkington Video Preview Built in 1909, the Booth Tarkington house was one of the earliest north of Maple Road which is now know as 38th Street. Clinton and Maria Hare had purchased the property before he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Within six months, at the age of 44 he succumbed, leaving Maria alone at age 40 with six children. She decided that a home in the country would benefit both herself and her children, and so she went forward with building at 4270, reportedly designing the Tudor-styled country house herself. Author Booth Tarkington purchased the home in the early 1920s after winning his second Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was widely considered the great American novelist. Though he spent his summers and much of his later life in Kennebunkport, Maine, Tarkington maintained his residence at 4270 until his death in 1946. Colehaven, 4909 Meridian StreetHomeowners: Dr. Jose Moreno & Dr. Victoria Golebiowski Decorator: Engledow Group Home sponsor: Good Living Indy Classic cars: 1916 Cole, Jim Dewes; 1924 Cole 890 Royal Master, Mark Olson Colehaven Video Preview Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, 4909, was built in 1932 for the president of the Cole Motor Car Company, Joseph Jarrett (JJ) Cole Jr, and his wife Leartrus. The large home is a mixture of late 19th and early 20th Century Revivals architecture as well as French Renaissance style. The limestone used for the exterior was sourced in Bloomington and features a reddish hue from iron deposits which mixes well with the reddish custom terra cotta shingles. The interior features unsanded travertine marble, red gum woodwork and plaster cornice moldings. The basement features a massive safe that was moved to the site from the Cole Motor Car Company in 1932. After it was lowered into the basement, the house was built around it. In a prescient nod to contemporary urban design that promotes accessory dwelling units, the coachman’s living quarters were located above the garage.