Saved and Sold:
The most recent project of Richmond Neighborhood Restoration is this beautiful brick Italianate located in the Linden Hill Neighborhood of Richmond. Built in the 1870s with 11 ½’ Ceilings and six fireplaces, each with their own flair! We have restored the main areas of the house back to the original red & white oak floors. 100% Brand new kitchen with Whirlpool appliances and adjacent laundry room (unfurnished) both with new tiling. Three bed, two and a half bath. Small yard and 400 square foot patio lead to the original 2-story carriage house, which is now a 1.5 car garage. Pocket doors, transom windows, original wrought-iron fence. New roof put on in 2017, central heating & air (2 units each), updated electrical and plumbing, new vinyl windows in most rooms for energy efficiency, new carpet in bedrooms. Original crystal chandeliers paired with modern lighting. Finishable attic, spacious basement.
See below for more pictures and information.
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Named for Community Excellence
Partially donated to RNR by the Judge Family, in the memory of their parents, Ann & Jerry Judge.
"Our parents, Ann and Jerry Judge, cared deeply about Richmond, serving in public leadership roles and tirelessly volunteering for key public service organizations to make a better and more inclusive community. In keeping with their dedication to community service, we as their children wanted to honor them and their legacy, even as we considered the fate of their historic but well- worn home."
"While settling family affairs, we learned of Richmond Neighborhood Restoration, Inc.’s burgeoning efforts to restore homes in an overarching mission to revitalize neighborhoods. A contribution of their home to that effort to strengthen the local community truly seemed like the best path to honor our parents’ legacy. We were convinced that partnering with RNR would restore the home’s beauty and history, take care of a little piece of South 17th and preserve a small part of the community that meant so much to our parents."
"This house is the final monument to Ann and Jerry’s service and commitment to community. We hope it is one of many bricks in the structure of Richmond’s continued progress."
-Kit Judge, Greg Asbury, Leslie Holbrook, Jay Judge, and Gabriel Asbury
"Our parents, Ann and Jerry Judge, cared deeply about Richmond, serving in public leadership roles and tirelessly volunteering for key public service organizations to make a better and more inclusive community. In keeping with their dedication to community service, we as their children wanted to honor them and their legacy, even as we considered the fate of their historic but well- worn home."
"While settling family affairs, we learned of Richmond Neighborhood Restoration, Inc.’s burgeoning efforts to restore homes in an overarching mission to revitalize neighborhoods. A contribution of their home to that effort to strengthen the local community truly seemed like the best path to honor our parents’ legacy. We were convinced that partnering with RNR would restore the home’s beauty and history, take care of a little piece of South 17th and preserve a small part of the community that meant so much to our parents."
"This house is the final monument to Ann and Jerry’s service and commitment to community. We hope it is one of many bricks in the structure of Richmond’s continued progress."
-Kit Judge, Greg Asbury, Leslie Holbrook, Jay Judge, and Gabriel Asbury
The Italianate Style
Popular during the second half of the 20th Century (roughly 1850’s to 1890’s), the Italianate Style gained prominence with the advent and mass publication of architectural pattern books during the 19th Century. Cottage Residences (1842) and The Architecture of Country Houses (1850) - both by A. J. Downing - helped to usher in a mass appreciation - and duplication - of many Revival Styles, such as the Gothic Revival, Italian Renaissance, the Italian Villa, and many vernacular offshoots. These pattern books gained widespread popularity among carpenter buildings around the United States and assisted in the style’s dissemination. Richmond has one of the finest samplings of 19th Century Italian/Renaissance inspired architecture in Indiana, and the Ann & Jerry Judge House is one of the finest early (c. 1870’s) examples in the City. Some of the character defining features of the style include the use of brackets at the cornice, tall narrow windows with arched or ornamented hoods, and the use of corner quoining (which is a decorative element that mimics protruding and varied masonry work). On the interior, the house has working transoms above all of the doors, allowing air and light to move around through the house (which was the historic equivalent to central air). The doors are framed with ornate wood molding called architrave. The Judge House utilizes all of these quintessential architectural elements and is a Notable example of the Italianate Style.
