Isaac McCoy, the Baptist missionary of the Carey Mission and the Fort Wayne country, in the frontispiece portrait of the 1895 memorial volume, reproduced from the portrait of 1831. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Businesses, Churches & Religion, Isaac McCoy's mission church, and the First Baptist line ·…John W. Dawson, editor of the Fort Wayne Times and later third governor of Utah Territory, in the portrait photograph printed in Whitney's school history of Utah in 1908. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Businesses, Notable People, Fort Wayne Times · Notable PeopleThe white cable-stayed pedestrian bridge over the St. Joseph River beside the campus, photographed in 2011. Abhijitsathe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source fileAppears in: Schools & CollegesThe Ernest E. Williams Theatre on the Fort Wayne campus, photographed in 2008. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Schools & CollegesThe Hilliard Gates Sports Center and Athletic Center Fieldhouse at Purdue Fort Wayne, photographed in 2021. Jpbrenna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source fileAppears in: Schools & CollegesWaterfield Campus Student Housing at IPFW, the apartment-style residences completed in 2004, photographed in 2008. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Schools & CollegesMastodon Field, the Purdue Fort Wayne baseball diamond, seen from beyond the outfield fence in the off-season, 2021. Jpbrenna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source fileAppears in: Schools & CollegesInside the John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center, the glass-walled lobby of the music building opened in fall 2007, photographed in 2008. Tim Zink · CC BY 3.0 · source fileAppears in: Schools & CollegesA weathered International truck tractor, hood open, on display at the 2025 Harvester Homecoming near the former International Harvester Truck Works in Fort Wayne on 1 August 2025: the plant whose closing on 15 July 1983 this page records, its trucks now returning as exhibits. CC0 · source fileAppears in: Industrial Revolution, The reversal · deindustrialization · Industrial RevolutionThe bronze equestrian statue of General Anthony Wayne in Freimann Square, Fort Wayne, sculpted by George Etienne Ganiere in 1918 and photographed in 2014: Wayne raised the first American fort here in 1794 and named Jean Francois Hamtramck its first commandant, opening the American commandant sequence this page carries to 1819. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Government, Three flags over the fort: the commandants, 1722–1819 ·…Fort Wayne's former City Hall on East Berry Street, photographed in 2011: the work of Wing and Mahurin, the partnership of John F. Wing and Marshall S. Mahurin, and now the home of the History Center. CC0 · source fileAppears in: Notable People, John F. Wing (1852–1947) and Marshall S. Mahurin…Promenade Park on the St. Marys River in 2020, its lawns and amphitheater steps in the foreground and the downtown Fort Wayne skyline beyond: the park opened in August 2019 as the first phase of Riverfront Fort Wayne. CC0 · source fileAppears in: Promenade Park and the Riverfront · Famous LandmarksThe Lincoln Bank Tower at 116 East Berry Street, photographed in 2005: its banking lobby was the principal interior location of Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men, shot in Fort Wayne in June 1996, and the film's final shot was made in that lobby. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Fort Wayne on Screen — In the Company of Men (1997) ·…Page 11 of The Fort Wayne Sentinel of 9 May 1912: the daily paper that descends from the Sentinel Thomas Tigar brought out with S. V. B. Noel on 6 July 1833 as Fort Wayne's first newspaper. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Notable People, Thomas Tigar · Notable PeopleManuscript map made on 18 July 1795 for General Anthony Wayne, showing the first American fort at the confluence of the St. Marys and St. Joseph: the anchor site in the sequence of French, British and American forts this page traces. Public domain · source fileAppears in: The Fort Sites in Sequence — French, British and American…Brookside, the John H. Bass Mansion at 2701 Spring Street in Fort Wayne, photographed on 4 January 2014: the home of John H. Bass, who from 1862 built the Bass Foundry and Machine Works out of the Jones, Bass and Company works this page traces. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Notable People, Jones, Bass & Company → Bass Foundry & Machine Works ·…The Wane of Winter, painted by J. Ottis Adams in 1901 and held by the Indianapolis Museum of Art: Adams commuted to Fort Wayne from 1887 to teach the night art classes that seeded the Fort Wayne Art School, opened in 1888. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Notable People, J. Ottis Adams (1851–1927) — painter · Notable PeopleThe top of the Lincoln Bank Tower in Fort Wayne, photographed in 2024: the tower was commissioned by Charles Buesching, president of the Lincoln National Bank and one of the imported chiefs in this grouped record, and opened on 16 November 1930. Detsom · CC BY 4.0 · source fileAppears in: Founders & CEOs, The chiefs who came here — a grouped record · Founders &…William Powell, Carole Lombard and Jean Dixon in My Man Godfrey (1936): Fort Wayne born Lombard received her only Academy Award nomination, Best Actress, for this film. Public domain · source fileAppears in: National Honors, The stage and screen awards: an Oscar nomination, an Emmy…Detail of the March 1885 Sanborn fire insurance map of Fort Wayne showing the roundhouse and depot of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: the line whose Fort Wayne repair and construction shops, the Pennsy Shops, this page profiles. Public domain · source fileAppears in: The Pennsy Shops — where Fort Wayne built locomotives ·…Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, photographed in 2025: his widely reported February 2026 lecture making a biblical and natural law case on the treatment of immigrants is the national stage episode this page records for faith in Fort Wayne public life. Davidnegrete1981 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source fileAppears in: Churches & Religion, Faith in public life · Churches & ReligionThe Snyderman House in Fort Wayne, photographed by Todd Zeiger for Indiana Landmarks in 2000: Michael Graves designed the house in 1972 for Sanford and Joy Snyderman, and it was destroyed by an arson fire in 2002. Todd Zeiger · CC BY 4.0 · source fileAppears in: Architecture, Michael Graves's First Houses — Hanselmann (1967–1971) and…The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company home office building in Fort Wayne on a Tichnor Brothers postcard of the 1930s or 1940s: the company Perry Randall and Arthur F. Hall founded on 12 June 1905, with Randall suggesting the Lincoln name and Hall serving as its first president. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Founders & CEOs, Perry Randall and Arthur F. Hall — the men who founded…The Treaty of Greenville negotiations of 1795, in a painting made about the time and held by the Chicago History Museum: Blue Jacket signed the treaty on 3 August 1795. The figures the painting is believed to identify are General Anthony Wayne and the Miami chief Little Turtle, and no authentic portrait of Blue Jacket is known. Public domain · source fileAppears in: Notable People, Blue Jacket · Notable People
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