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The Lincoln Bank Tower was Fort Wayne's first skyscraper: ground broken on 16 August 1929, weeks before the Crash, built straight through the Depression's onset by the Lincoln National Bank and Trust, and opened on 16 November 1930 to more than 38,000 visitors, at a cost of $1.3 million — Walker & Weeks of Cleveland designing, Alvin M. Strauss associate architect. Its building history is in the Architecture chapter. Its ghost lore is the most architectural in the city: the tower is said to be haunted floor by floor. The Waynedale News put it compactly in 2017: "Lincoln Tower is said to be haunted by different ghosts on each floor." Fort Wayne Magazine's list fills in the two floors the tradition specifies: the top floor is home to the ghost of a man who reportedly jumped to his death, and a female ghost on the fourth floor is said to scream at people.
No death at the tower answering to the jumper's story appears in any source reached for this section, and the tellings name neither the man nor a date; the lore is carried here as what it demonstrably is — a tradition about the city's most conspicuous building, repeated in print since at least 2017, whose central event is undocumented. A tower that opened to 38,000 sightseers as the symbol of the city's ambition was bound to collect stories; the record shows it collecting them in the plural, one to a floor.
Sources: Waynedale News, "Creepy Tales & Spooky Occurrences," 27 October 2017; Fort Wayne Magazine, haunted-places list (fortwayne.com); the Architecture section of this history (the tower's construction and opening).