The Bates–Hendricks neighborhood is situated just south and east of the downtown commercial district of Indianapolis, Indiana.

The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and home tours are offered by appointment.

The larger Bates-built section is of Italianate design complete with a 60-foot (18 m) tower on the home's east exposure.

[2] Bates was Marion County's first sheriff (1822) and later, president of the Indianapolis branch of the state Bank of Indiana.

In the early twentieth century the home's tower hosted one of the first radio transmitters in Indiana.

[citation needed] Madison Avenue, the western boundary of the neighborhood, is the old Mauxferry Road.

It also served as the stagecoach road to reach the steamboats on the Ohio River before the railroad era.

James O. Woodruff built the Victorian neighborhood around the Bates–Hendricks House in 1872, calling it Hendricks Place.

Alterations were made at various times, including a modernization in the 1920s by Frank R. Childers, who was the Marion County Recorder from 1927 to 1930.

The architects were Vonnegut and Bohn, who earlier had designed Das Deutsche Haus, now known as the Athenaeum, in downtown Indianapolis.

The plan seeks to maintain the mixed-income character of the neighborhood, focusing on attracting businesses wanted by local residents but avoiding the chain and expensive restaurants, liquor stores, and nightclubs that have proliferated in Fountain Square and Broad Ripple Village.

[8] Karen E. Laine and Mina Starsiak Hawk of the Good Bones television series opened a home furnishings store named Two Chicks District Co. at 1531 S. East Street on June 20, 2020.

This small park on the western edge of the neighborhood is the site of Lars Jonker's abstract sculpture Play.

[13] A Keep Indianapolis Beautiful project to revitalize the park by installing native plantings and updating its equipment was begun in 2015.

[14] The Pleasant Run Trail cuts through the southeast corner of the neighborhood along the creek of the same name on its way to Garfield Park a half-mile south.

The parkways on each side of the creek are part of the Indianapolis Park and Boulevard System designed by George Kessler.