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architect Patrick Mikusky informally presented his Golden State vision for a new home in Herron-Morton to the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission, the stafft old him not to get his hopes up. “White plaster, flat roof, floor-to-ceiling glass—they said it won’t fly,” Patrick recalls with a laugh. Undeterred, he and his wife, Jenni, strolled through the neighborhood and reimagined how their design could blend more appropriately into the context of the surroundings without losing the clean lines and contemporary aesthetic they desired. The commission approved, and the couple didn’t have to abandon their California dreamin’ to transform a vacant lot on North New Jersey Street into an