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Wildwood Park, south of West Jefferson Boulevard between Freeman Street and Ardmore Avenue, was designed by landscape architect Arthur A. Shurcliff for Lee J. Ninde's Wildwood Builders. The plan was developed from the summer of 1914 to the spring of 1916, when the plat was recorded, and it is the first example of curvilinear landscape design for an automobile-oriented subdivision in northeastern Indiana — a "rural suburban village," as the neighborhood's own account puts it, at a distance that required a car. Joel Roberts Ninde and Grace E. Crosby designed houses for the firm, which also developed Lafayette Place and the Brookview addition. The Wildwood Park Community Association maintains four parks and administers the founders' restrictive covenants, which remain on file with the Allen County Recorder. The Wildwood Park Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 2013. The district's buildings are treated in the Architecture section.
Sources: City of Fort Wayne historic district brochure and National Register nomination, Wildwood Park Historic District; ACGSI Wildwood Park neighborhood page; ARCH listing announcement, 2013.