 Woodruff Place is bounded on the west by the campus of Arsenal Technical High School,
which opened in 1912 on the former site of the Indianapolis Arsenal, and which still uses several historic buildings from the arsenal.Woodruff Place was once considered to be one of Indianapolis's more affluent neighborhoods before beginning a gradual decline as the automobile led to the development of newer upscale subdivisions beginning in the late 1910s.By the 1950s many of the grand homes had been subdivided into apartments; previously, the neighborhood had only a modest collection of duplexes and smaller apartment buildings which were added beginning in the early 1910s.