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Brookview–Irvington Park, along the St. Marys River north of downtown, is three developments that grew together. Oak Knoll was platted in 1906 by Walter Seavey and Frederick Shoaff on the Warren H. Withers estate. Irvington Park was designed and platted in 1910–1911 by realtor John H. Vesey and the Tri-State Loan and Trust Company, with landscape by Walter Hoxie Hillary, beside Centlivre Park, the brewery's resort and beer garden; after Vesey's death in 1912 his widow donated the platted park to the city as John H. Vesey Park. Brookview, designed in 1917 by Arthur A. Shurcliff for Wildwood Builders' Brookview Improvement Company — formed in 1917 by Wildwood Builders with investors, led by Lee Ninde and Fred Shoaff — completed the group, although a Fort Wayne Daily News advertisement of May 5, 1911 was already offering Brookview lots at the end of the Spy Run trolley line. The combined district covers about 140 acres and 314 homes. The Brookview–Irvington Park Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Its buildings are treated in the Architecture section.
Sources: City of Fort Wayne historic district brochure, Brookview–Irvington Park; City of Fort Wayne release, April 20, 2011; The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Brookview–Irvington Park.