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The Lakeside Historic District is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in Fort Wayne, Indiana, added in 2018. [1]The district is bounded by Tennessee Avenue to the north, Saint Joe Boulevard (following the Saint Joseph River to the west, Edgewater Avenue (following the Maumee River to the south, and Crescent and California Avenues to the east.
[2]: 8 North Anthony's development is directly related to the implementation of the 1912 plan for Parks and Boulevards for the city of Fort Wayne by city planner and landscape architect George Kessler, prior to which the boulevard was called Walton Avenue, and ended at State Street (then Pfeiffer Avenue). [3]: 62
The population topped 2,000 when the town was incorporated as the City of Fort Wayne on February 22, 1840. [36] Pioneer newspaperman George W. Wood was elected the city's first mayor. Fort Wayne's "Summit City" nickname dates from this period, referring to the city's position at the highest elevation along the canal's route. [17]
Harrison Square is a mixed-use downtown revitalization project in Fort Wayne, Indiana.The project includes a ballpark that is primarily used for baseball, home field to the Fort Wayne TinCaps minor league baseball team.
The Journal-Gazette Building is a historic commercial building located in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was designed by noted Fort Wayne architect Charles R. Weatherhogg and built in 1927–1928. It is a four-story, 13 bay, red brick building with limestone trim in the Chicago Style. The seven central bays feature round arch window openings.
Schmitz Block, also known as the Noll Block, is a historic commercial building located in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was built in 1888, and is a four-story, L-shaped, Richardsonian Romanesque style brick building clad entirely in cut limestone. It features round rock-faced piers which extend the full height of the building and round arch ...
The district encompasses 481 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 1 contributing structure, and 6 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Fort Wayne. The area was developed from about 1925 to 1960, and includes notable examples of Tudor Revival , Mission Revival , and Modern Movement style residential architecture.
Fort Wayne Park and Boulevard System Historic District is a national historic district located at Fort Wayne, Indiana.The district encompasses 34 contributing buildings, 61 contributing sites, 70 contributing structures, and 15 contributing objects in 11 public parks, four parkways, and ten boulevards associated with the parkway and boulevard system in Fort Wayne.