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Arts United Center is an arts center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S. The Fine Arts Foundation of Fort Wayne originally proposed the construction of a large complex devoted to the arts in the early 1960s. [1] The foundation compiled an ambitious program including facilities to support an art school, gallery, theater, orchestra, historical museum.
Fort Wayne was the center of the American light rail system, and boasted the only full cloverleaf in the world at "Transfer Corner", the intersection of Calhoun and Main. Despite the low cost - 25-mile trip to Bluffton cost 50 cents and took 52 minutes - ridership of the interurban system plummeted after a 1910 crash near Bluffton killed forty ...
The Sculpture Garden resulted as part of the museum's 2009–2010 expansion. The current facility of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, designed by architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, encompasses 50,000 square feet (4,600 m 2) and includes three separate wings: Exhibition/Collection, Education/Administration, and the Auditorium, with an enclosed atrium linking the three wings in ...
After the construction on the building was finished in 2011, city officials released an opinion poll to determine its name. The building garnered media attention when it became known that the leading name contender was the "Harry Baals Government Center", referring to Fort Wayne's former mayor Harry Baals (pronounced / ˈ h ær i ˈ b ɔː l z /, although Baals' descendants have chosen to ...
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.
Anthony Wayne, exhibits the birth of Fort Wayne with General "Mad" Anthony Wayne's ordering of a fort to be built at the three rivers, October 22, 1794. An Emerging City , includes a model of and parts of the Wabash and Erie Canal , attributed to turning the city into a boom-town in the 19th century.
The Embassy Theatre (formerly the Emboyd Theatre) is a 2,471-seat [2] performing arts theater in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. It was built in 1928 as a movie palace and up until recently, it was the home of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. A postcard depicting the Emboyd and Indiana Hotel, circa 1930–1945. Embassy Theatre featuring the Grande Page ...
The Grand Wayne Center is a convention center located in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, Allen County, United States. As a result of a $42 million renovation and expansion from 2003–2005, the Grand Wayne now encompasses 225,000 square feet (20,900 m 2 ).