Fort Wayne Landmarks, Architecture and Neighborhoods

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Fort Wayne Landmarks, Architecture and Neighborhoods

Landmarks, buildings, maps, parks and neighborhoods.

Historic American Buildings Survey photograph, 30 March 1934, Fort Wayne. Public domain · source file

Famous Fort Wayne Landmarks: The Confluence, the Forts and Johnny Appleseed's GraveFamous Locations — the Confluence, the Fort Sites, the First Game, and the Places the World KnowsSome places in Fort Wayne are known far beyond the city: the ground where three rivers meet and a Miami capital stood, the field where professional baseball began, the grave of Johnny Appleseed, the house of Chief…19 entry pages

Fort Wayne Architecture: Courthouses, Towers and Movie PalacesArchitecture and the Built City — Courthouses, Towers, Movie Palaces and the Modernist CanonFort Wayne's built record is unusually legible, because so much of it has been researched and written down. Between them, the National Register of Historic Places and Indiana's SHAARD database hold a nomination file — a…23 entry pages

Historic Preservation in Fort Wayne: How the City Kept and Lost Its PastHeritage · How Fort Wayne kept, lost, and celebrated its pastFort Wayne began protecting its past earlier than it is usually given credit for, and it did so for the most practical of reasons: the wreckers were already at work. In 1965, with the oldest commercial block in the city…19 entry pages

Historic Maps of Fort Wayne: Three Centuries of Mapping the ConfluenceMaps — Three Centuries of Drawing the ConfluenceEvery age of Fort Wayne drew itself. French imperial cartographers put the Miami portage on the map of a continent before there was a town here at all; American surveyors then ruled the land into squares and sold it off…14 entry pages

Fort Wayne Parks and City Planning: The First Parks, the Boulevards and the First PlansParks and Plans — the First Park, the City Beautiful, and the BoulevardsFort Wayne's park system did not grow by accident. It began with a fifth of an acre of the old fort's ground in 1863, was argued into a board in 1905, and was then — in the space of seven years — lectured, reported…12 entry pages

Fort Wayne Neighborhoods: The History of the City's NeighborhoodsFort Wayne counts its neighborhoods in the hundreds. In a City post of May 8, 2024, launching the Data Fort Wayne website, the figure given was 458 neighborhoods; the Department of Neighborhoods now describes the city…36 entry pages

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