Editing Crows Nest, Indiana (section)

==History==
{{see also|National Register of Historic Places listings in Marion County, Indiana}}
Crows Nest was founded in 1927 and supposedly was named from crows nesting nearby.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History |url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/n123 106]–107|quote=...laid out and incorporated on May 8, 1927, and so named, according to WPA files, because crows nested in a tree here.}}</ref>

The '''Town of Crows Nest Historic District''' is a {{Convert|65|acre||abbr=|adj=on}} [[Historic district (United States)|historic district]] that was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2000.  It encompasses 29 contributing buildings, five contributing sites, four contributing structures, and three contributing objects in an exclusive residential enclave of Indianapolis. The district developed between about 1905 and 1950, and includes representative examples of [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor Revival]], [[Colonial Revival architecture|Colonial Revival]], [[Renaissance Revival architecture|Renaissance Revival]], and [[Art Deco architecture|Art Deco]] style architecture. Notable contributing resources include Vellameda (1904-1905), W. Hathaway Simmons House (1914), Walden Estate (1927), Lane's End Estate (1928), Goodman House (1927), and [[Eli Lilly]] House (1930).<ref name="SHAARD">{{cite web|title=Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)|url=https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/welcome.html|access-date=August 1, 2016|publisher=Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology|format=Searchable database}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web|author=Kipp Norman and Paul Baumgarten|date=March 1999|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Town of Crows Nest Historic District|url=https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/22393/N/Town_of_Crows_Nest_HD_Marion_CO_Nom.pdf|access-date=August 1, 2016|format=PDF}}, [https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/54547/N/Crows_Nest_scanned_photocopy_images_Part1.pdf Accompanying photographs], and [https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/54548/N/Crows_Nest_scanned_photocopy_images_Part2.pdf Accompanying photographs]</ref>