Southwood Park Historic District

Southwood Park Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Intersection of S. Wayne and W. Maple Grove Avenues, Southwood Park Historic District, January 2014

Location	Bounded by W. Pettit Ave., Stratford Rd., W. Sherwood Terrace, Hartman Rd., Lexington Ave., Indiana Ave., Fort Wayne, Indiana
Coordinates	41°02′31″N 85°08′57″W / 41.04194°N 85.14917°W / 41.04194; -85.14917Coordinates: 41°02′31″N 85°08′57″W / 41.04194°N 85.14917°W / 41.04194; -85.14917
Area	320 acres (130 ha)
Built	1917 (1917)
Architect	Schaaf, Albert H.
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements
MPS	Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830-1960 MPS
NRHP Reference #	09001126^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 22, 2009

Southwood Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The district encompasses 1,889 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 4 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in a predominantly residential section of Fort Wayne. The area was developed between about 1906 and 1965, and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style residential architecture. Its development is directly related to the implementation of the 1912 plan for Parks and Boulevards for the city of Fort Wayne by city planner and landscape architect George Kessler.

Notable buildings include the Hutson Drug Store, Hoosier Foods Store, Gollers Dry Cleaning building, First Missionary Church (c. 1920), St. John the Baptist Catholic Church complex, and Missionary Church World Headquarters (c. 1950).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.^[1]

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-07-01. Note: This includes Angela M. Quinn (January 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Southwood Park Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-07-01. and Accompanying photographs.

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Indiana

Topics	Contributing property Keeper of the Register Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Property types

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Other lists	Bridges National Historic Landmarks

Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property

Neighborhoods of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Ansley Acres Brookside Estates Concordia Gardens Country Club Gardens Covington Dells Crestwood Ellisville Forest Park Golden Acres Hacienda Village Liberty Hills Ludwig Park Manor Woods Maplewood Park Parkway Hills Rolling Hills Royal Oaks Royville Sunnybrook Acres Sunny Meadows Wallen Waynedale Westlawn Westmoor Williams–Woodland Park

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