Final Document

Right before submitting the final document to our community partner, the Riverside-Normal City Neighborhood Association, a final virtual meeting was held. During the meeting, the team gave an overview of the final document and that allowed for community members and vested members of the neighborhood to give final insight and recommendations that could be added to the document.

The survey document includes a developmental history of the Riverside-Normal City neighborhood, starting with its founding as a separate city, it's eventual annexation by the City of Muncie, and how it stands today. Attention was also paid to the landscape and urban form of the neighborhood as some of the landscaping features, like the brick pavement and fieldstone retaining walls. 

The document also includes several recommendations, most of the recommendations deal with individual properties. Five individual properties were found to have the potential to be eligible for listing to the National Register of Historic Places as individual properties, these would require further research an investigation to further determine eligibility. 

The majority of the document is dedicated to individual houses. A survey sheet was filled out for each house and spells out that house's history, architectural style, and overall form, among other things. The survey sheets also include individual statements of significance which lists the significance of the structure and its contributing status to the historic district.