Foundations Under Indiana's Best-Known Brick Main Street
Zionsville was platted in 1851 and formally established in 1852, and its brick-paved Main Street historic district — with a first church from 1854 and first school from 1858 — carries some of the oldest foundation construction in this service area, built long before modern waterproofing and drainage standards existed. That older core sits on the same regional glacial till clay as Zionsville's newer upscale subdivisions, which use contemporary footing and drainage methods on the same ground.
Old Main Street, New Subdivisions, Same Clay
We read historic Main Street Zionsville foundations for a century-plus of accumulated clay movement, and evaluate the town's newer subdivision homes more around grading and drainage choices made during recent construction.