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North Anthony Boulevard is a boulevard first and a neighborhood around it. The street was laid out under George Kessler's park and boulevard plan — Charles Mulford Robinson's 1909 plan came first; Kessler's was presented in 1911, and the Park Board voted on December 7, 1912 to begin the widening. The boulevard is uniformly 100 feet wide: a 40-foot roadway flanked by 30-foot green strips, with an allée of London plane trees specified by Kessler and first planted in 1912 under City Forester Carl J. Getz. The street had been Walton Avenue, ending at State Street; the 1918 Sanborn map shows the new name, North Anthony Boulevard, and the street was extended north through the Driving Park plat of 1913 and to Crescent Avenue in 1918. Most of the district was developed between about 1918 and 1930, with infill into the 1950s — 296 contributing resources in the nomination's count. An earlier 2010 listing of the Fort Wayne Park and Boulevard System Historic District already covered the boulevard's right-of-way.
The North Anthony Boulevard Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 2014, in a nomination prepared by ARCH, Inc. Within it stands the individually listed William C. and Clara Hagerman House at 2105 North Anthony Boulevard, built about 1923 in the Forest Park Addition, platted in 1906 by the Tri-State Loan and Trust Company. The district lies within the North Anthony Area Association. No source found states why the name Anthony was chosen for the boulevard, and none is offered here. Its buildings are treated in the Architecture section.
Sources: National Register nomination, North Anthony Boulevard Historic District (Ref. 14000800); City of Fort Wayne release, November 13, 2014; National Register nomination, Hagerman House (Ref. 15000076).