Condos for Sale in Fairmount, IN

James Dean was the personification of 1950s California cool, but the late actor spent much of his childhood in Fairmount. This east-central Indiana locality wears its connection to Dean like a badge of honor, touting The James Dean Museum and a James Dean Festival that draws thousands annually. Fairmount’s water tower features a painting of Dean and of Garfield — Jim Davis, the comic’s creator, also grew up here. Present-day residents fill a community packed with classic houses, and its small-town feel persists despite its notoriety as the home of Dean and Davis. “When you go to Fairmount, you feel like you’re in Mayberry,” says Cathy Hunnicutt of Re/Max Realty One, who’s among Indiana’s top agents with over 100 sales per year. “Which is an amazing, wonderful feeling.” Many of the area’s homes date to a period from the turn of the 20th century through the middle of the century. The community’s narrow, quiet residential streets offer a sampling of classic bungalow, Craftsman and ranch-style architecture. “Fairmount has some really beautiful older homes,” Hunnicutt says. “Well-preserved, gorgeous — I mean, gorgeous — older homes.” However, there are some modern New Traditional