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Beechwood overlays a plat first recorded in 1894 and replatted in 1914, when broadly curved streets were added. Its spine is Fairfield Avenue, once called "mansion row" for the large houses that lined it. The district takes in the Beechwood Park plat, with large residences around a small triangular park, and runs roughly from Fairfield Avenue east to South Wayne Avenue, Pierce Avenue, and Beechwood Drive — 67 properties, mostly in the Creighton-Home neighborhood, with edges in Williams-Woodland Park and Fairfield. Homes and churches were built between about 1885 and 1964.
Beechwood's institutions tell its second act. The First Church of Christian Scientist at 2410 Fairfield Avenue, built in 1927 in temple form, became the Karpeles Manuscript Museum in 2013. Beside it, the former B'nai Jacob Synagogue, built about 1956, is now Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church; the First Baptist Church across the street dates to 1949, and the Fairfield Avenue Church of the Nazarene, built in 1964, is now Wings of Deliverance. The Beechwood Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 2021. No source found states a developer for the 1914 replat or the origin of the name. The district's buildings are treated in the Architecture section.
Sources: Indiana DNR Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, National Register summary, February 16, 2022 (Ref. SG100007177); City of Fort Wayne release, December 7, 2021; ACGSI place file summary of WANE-TV reporting, December 7, 2021.