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Lakeside began as the Lakeside Park Addition, platted in 1890 northeast of downtown along the St. Joseph River, and grew as a streetcar suburb — its nomination coverage describes it as the area's first electrified streetcar suburb. The district's 444 buildings, most of them houses and small apartment buildings of the period 1890 to 1940, stand between St. Joseph Boulevard, Edgewater Avenue, Tennessee Avenue and the Crescent and California avenue edges of the Northside neighborhood. The Northside Neighborhood Association asked the city to pursue the listing; the Lakeside Historic District was entered on the National Register on December 8, 2017 — announced publicly the following month, which is why some accounts date it 2018 — and the smaller Columbia Avenue local historic district sits within it.
Sources: National Register listings in Allen County (Lakeside Historic District, reference no. 100001879, listed December 8, 2017); ACGSI, Lakeside Neighborhood page, drawing on the News-Sentinel, December 21, 2017; City of Fort Wayne historic preservation materials, 2026.