Old Northside Historic District

Geographically, the Old Northside is located just north of Indianapolis downtown. Neighborhood boundaries are 16th Street on the North; Pennsylvania Street on the West; Interstate I-65 on the South; and Bellefontaine Street on the East.

The Old Northside reached a peak as the fashionable residential district of Indianapolis just before 1914. In the years following World War I, the area began a period of slow decline. In 1978 the area was placed on the federal National Register of Historic Places as an historic district, and since then most of the historic buildings have been renovated and historically sympathetic in-fill housing has been built, making The Old Northside one of the premier historic districts in the mid-west.