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For a quarter century, Wing & Mahurin was the defining architectural firm of Fort Wayne. Both partners learned the trade in this city: John F. Wing and Marshall S. Mahurin each trained as draftsmen in the Fort Wayne office of T. J. Tolan & Son before forming their own partnership in 1882. Their Fort Wayne work was anchored by the Fort Wayne City Hall of 1893 — still standing downtown — and by Brookside, the John H. Bass mansion. Beyond the city, they designed the Indiana Building for the St. Louis World's Fair and dozens of schools, churches and houses in a territory the firm's records describe as running from Muncie to Michigan.
The partnership ended in 1907. Marshall Mahurin continued with his nephew Guy M. Mahurin — born in Fort Wayne on August 14, 1877, and died in 1941 — as Mahurin & Mahurin, practicing until 1918. (The younger firm's name survives in the record in a flagged disagreement over the architects of a 1910 Fort Wayne concrete complex, credited to Mahurin & Mahurin by the contemporary Journal Gazette and to Wing & Mahurin by a 1982 retrospective.) Wing practiced alone after 1907 and died in 1947 — according to an ARCH walking-tour account, in an elevator accident at the Scottish Rite building in Fort Wayne.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places nomination, First Congregational Church of Michigan City (National Park Service); ACGSI, Wing & Mahurin firm history; ARCH, Inc. (Fort Wayne) tour materials; National Register nominations, Williams–Woodland Park Historic District and Dugan House.