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The Driving Park–Seven States Historic District, inside the Northside neighborhood, began as a fairground for horses. In November 1892 Frederick J. Hayden sold about 100 acres, land that had come out of Samuel Hanna's holdings, to the newly formed Fort Wayne Driving Association. The Driving Park's October 9, 1902 festivities included Fort Wayne's first automobile race, and ACGSI's account credits Blanche Stuart Scott with a solo public flight there on October 23, 1910. In 1913 the association sold the land to developer Louis F. Curdes; the Driving Park Addition was platted that year (ordinance of May 13, 1913), and the Forest Hill Addition replat was recorded October 22, 1917. Nearly 500 properties followed, their homes built mostly between 1906 and 1952. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 2021. A discrepancy in the copied record is carried in the note at the end of this section. Its buildings are treated in the Architecture section.
Sources: Indiana DNR recent-listings newsletter; City of Fort Wayne release, March 16, 2021; ACGSI, Driving Park place file.