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Southwood Park, 320 acres on the southwest side, is what the 1912 Kessler park-and-boulevard framework produced when a developer worked it at full neighborhood scale. The firm of Hilgeman & Schaaf began developing it about 1917, in sections — Southwood Park Sections A through F, Fairmont Place and their neighbors — through a remnant of the oak-hickory forest that still runs west into Foster Park. Building continued from about 1906 to 1965: Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival and Craftsman houses, with the First Missionary Church (c. 1920), the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church complex and the Missionary Church's world headquarters (c. 1950) among the institutional buildings. The district was listed on the National Register on December 22, 2009, with 1,889 contributing buildings — a count often cited as the largest historic district of its kind in the northern two-thirds of Indiana.
Sources: Wikipedia, "Southwood Park Historic District" (National Register reference no. 09001126); National Register nomination, Southwood Park Historic District (2008–2009).