Fairfield Terrace and Belmont

Fairfield Terrace Belmont, south of Pettit Avenue, is two plats that became one neighborhood. The Belmont plat — a very large grid stretching from Pettit Avenue south to Paulding Road — was platted in 1909, with the McKinnieville plat immediately north of it. The Fairfield Terrace plat of 1925 extended the developing neighborhood west to Fairfield Avenue. The association gives its bounds as West Pettit on the north, Fairfield on the west, West Paulding on the south, and South Calhoun on the east, marked by brick pillars at West Pettit and Buell Drive, Fairfield and Lenox Avenue, and Fairfield and Fairfax Avenue. Building was slow and long: gable-front cottages of the 1910s, a rare run of simple new houses built even during the Great Depression, Ranch houses of the 1960s, and contemporary infill. In the 1970s — the association's own history gives the decade but no exact year — Belmont and Fairfield Terrace officially merged as Fairfield Terrace Belmont. No subdivider or developer is named in the association's history or was found in the state survey or journalism, and none is supplied here.

The neighborhood's park is Kettler Park, which the association credits to the Kettler family's donation of land for public recreation — an association claim, carried as such — with a pavilion and fireplace that host reunions and festivals. Fairfield Terrace Belmont is one of the 18 neighborhoods of the Packard 2030 plan, and in April 2026 the City highlighted its 2026 Belmont utility and infrastructure improvements, with a future phase toward Paulding Road and Calhoun Street.

Sources: Fairfield Terrace Belmont Neighborhood Association, About Us (fairfieldterracebelmont.com); City of Fort Wayne, Neighborhood Plans page; Fort Wayne City Utilities release, April 14, 2026.