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In 2000, the building was named to honor E. Ross Adair, a Republican congressman from Indiana's Fourth District. Adair, who was born in Fort Wayne in 1907 and died there in 1983, served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was ambassador to Ethiopia from 1971-1974. He was in private legal practice at the time of his death. [2]
Under the Unigov provision of Indiana Law, Fort Wayne would have automatically consolidated with Allen County when its population exceeded 250,000, previously the minimum population for a first class city in Indiana. [195] Fort Wayne nearly met the state requirements for first class city designation on January 1, 2006, when 12.8 square miles ...
Hence the name, the .20 acre park is home to the original well used by inhabitants of the first Fort Wayne established on October 22, 1794, dedicated to General Anthony Wayne. The fort was allegedly moved and rebuilt on this location in 1798, with completion in 1804. In 1815/1816, after the Siege of Fort Wayne, a third fort was built here on ...
Historic Fort Wayne, seen here in 2014, is a recreation of the 1815 garrison. Fort Wayne was a series of three successive military log stockades existing between 1794 and 1819 on the confluence between the St. Mary's and St. Joseph Rivers in northeastern Indiana, in what is now the city of Fort
As of March 2020, the Fort Wayne–Huntington–Auburn Combined Statistical Area (CSA), or Fort Wayne Metropolitan Area, or Northeast Indiana is a federally designated metropolitan area consisting of eight counties in northeast Indiana (Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Steuben, Wells, and Whitley counties), anchored by the city of Fort Wayne.
The Kensington Boulevard Historic District is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in Fort Wayne, Indiana, added in 2019. [2] The district contains more than 170 homes built between 1917 and 1955, with one home dating to approximately 1870.
First built Use Notes Grouseland: Vincennes, Indiana: 1802-1804 Residence Home of president William Henry Harrison [1] It is the oldest standing building in Indiana. Indiana Territorial Capitol: Vincennes, Indiana: 1804 Government First territorial capitol of Indiana; moved from original foundation in 1949 [1] Mont Clair Farmhouse: Knox County ...
The Beaux-Arts architecture-style structure includes such features as four 25-by-45-foot (7.6 m × 13.7 m) murals by Charles Holloway, twenty-eight different kinds of scagliola covering 15,000 square feet (1,400 m 2), bas-reliefs and art glass.