L3Harris Fort Wayne once again played a role in the launch of Earth's newest weather satellite Tuesday! Read about the part the company developed, learn about the satellite, and discover future satellite technology on the way by clicking below. #15Fury
January 9, 2013 Lafayette Place Historic District on Fort Wayne’s south side was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Lafayette Place is bounded roughly by Lafayette Street on the east, Calhoun Street on the west, McKinnie Avenue on the north and Pettit Avenue on the south. The Lafayette Place Historic District is significant in architecture, landscape architecture and community planning, the ARCH news release said. Read more Lafayette Place neighborhood named to National Register of Historic Places It was one of three districts nominated by local group ARCH that received listing approval by News-Sentinel staff reports, January 19, 2013.
Lake Shore Hotel
Was located at the intersection of Cass Street and Wells Street just North of the Wells Street Bridge. Photo posted August 8, 2019 by Hofer Davis Surveyors on Facebook.
Landmark Building
In 1924, on 8 acres of land the Fort Wayne Hospital and Sanitarium, at 1640 Spy Run Avenue was established by Doctor Stamets. See biography of Henry Stamets, M.D. in Indiana, One Hundred and Fifty Years of American Development, Volume 3. The building is now the Shepherd’s House. Lonnie Cox the executive director of the Shepard's House posted a Comment stating: The building you're talking about is now the Shepherds House property, a transitional living center primarily for veterans suffering from alcohol/ drug issues many with symptoms from PTSD and some non vets with the same. When we bought the building it was called the Landmark and served as an office building. It was originally built as the "Knight Mansion", a very prominent, in today's dollars, billionaire family. The Knights were the parents of movie star Carole Lombard's mother, in fact somewhere there's an old newspaper article describing the beautiful wedding of her and Carole's father in the parlor, which is now our office. At some point later it was turned into a holistic hospital. I'm not sure of the date but it was eventually bought by contractor J. R. Miller and Nancy ("Honeytree") Miller who upgraded the building to code then sold to Greg Pelosi for office space, which it remained until we bought it. I had heard that at one time there was a horse racetrack where the apartment buildings are next door that extended all the way down to the river. There was a lot of historical action going on around that area in the old days...the old house across the street was the home of Fort Wayne's first mayor, the whole area was the battlegrounds with the early Indian tribe and also many Indian burial grounds throughout. when it was discussed September 14, 2018 on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.
Lanternier-Vesey Flowers
On Crescent Avenue, now closed, could trace its history in Fort Wayne back to 1854. Before the Allen County Courthouse downtown was built, before the old City Hall building on East Berry Street was even a notion, before the Cathedral was planned and even before Lindenwood Cemetery took in its first grave, there was a florist in Fort Wayne called Lanternier. Word has it that the floral business was started by a family from France, and it was at one point on Calhoun Street. In time, Lanternier bought out a florist named Vesey and eventually it ended up in a little building on Crescent Avenue near State Boulevard. Read the rest of their story Wilting business ends Lanternier’s 158 years by Frank Gray of The Journal Gazette newspaper published September 9, 2012. Lantenier - Vesey Flowers - December 23, 1914 Fort Wayne News Christmas rose newspaper advertisement when Vesey's was at 2602 Thompson Avenue fromthe original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook.
LaSalle Inn
LaSalle Inn, on Facebook, with Sion Bass House - Bed and Breakfast - the historic 1842 home of Fort Wayne’s most celebrated Civil War hero Sion Bass, has been added to the LaSalle B&B Inn. Fort Wayne’s only bed and breakfast. LaSalle Bed & Breadkfast - occupies 2 buildings: The Thomas Snook House and the Sion Bass House. Located side by side in the 500 block of W. Washington Blvd.
Lassus Brothers Oil
From 1925 and 2018 on their History Timeline page: Lassus Brothers Oil evolved in 1925, when August Lassus decided to sell his coal business in order to build a gas station at one of Fort Wayne’s busiest intersections. Within three years he turned the reins over to his three sons Elmer, August Jr. and William, who added gas stations around town, hired mechanics to service cars, and eventually created a wholesale fuel oil distribution division. As of June 2018, there are 36 Lassus Handy Dandy Food Stores in Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio, and five Lassus affiliates, providing quality fuel and convenience to the neighborhoods and communities surrounding them. Discussed December 5, 2024 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook.
Page 557 in The pictorial history of Fort Wayne, Indiana : a review of two centuries of occupation of the region about the head of the Maumee River by Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927, league baseball park on Calhoun street, north of Superior street. The Baseball field was located where Headwaters Park and county jail, formerly Jailhouse Flats, are today between the confluence of the three rivers, Superior and Clinton Streets. A wooden structure was erected at the park in 1883. Rebuilt several times, the place received a major overhaul in 1908 with new grandstands and a grass infield. After the damage caused by the Great Flood of 1913, additional restoration was required. It was readied as a host park for semi-pro Central League teams, including the Lifers when they moved up to a minor league status. That 1927 exhibition season, League Park’s grandstand was filled with more than 3,000 fans, occupying all sitting and standing room. Enthusiastic Fort Wayne fans streamed in, eager to witness high drama from Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the other Yankee legends. The fans were not disappointed, as they sensed Babe’s charge into the annals of American history. Copied from Babe Ruth: A Big Hit in Fort Wayne by
Tom Castaldi, local historianpublished August 24, 2016 on Indiana Historical Bureau blog. The last two of Fort Wayne’s 12 major-league games were played at League Park in 1902. These American League regular-season contests were played in Fort Wayne, Indiana, by the Cleveland Bronchos in order to circumvent the Sunday blue laws in Cleveland.
Photos of a stone with a plaque about the June 2, 1883 was posted March 13, 2022 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook. A monument was funded at and placed by Poinsatte Motors. Geoff Paddock when asked where the monument plaque is now said he believes it was taken away during land prep for Headwaters Park.
Photos of a Poinsatte Chrysler Plymouth pamphlet on their 50th anniversary showing a commemorative plaque in a bolder at 200 South Clinton Street posted April 17, 2024 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook. Comments include night baseball newspaper stories June 3, 1883 Fort Wayne Daily Gazette page 8 Under the Midnight Sun and September 20, 1880 Experiment with Electric Lights The Recorder, Greenfield, Massachusetts, page 1.
WILL CLASH WITH LINCOLN LIFERS IN EXHIBITION GAME AT LEAGUE PARK
Appearance of McGraw's Famous Major Leaguers, Now In Desperate Fight for Pennant Honors of National, Will Prove Rare Treat for Fans of These Parte; Monster Crowd Predicted
Baseball fans of these their parts who have been following the fortunes of New York Giants in recent spurt pennantward will in the announcement made last night to the effect that negotiations have been closed for their appearance at League park on Wednesday, August 18, in an exhibition game against the Lincoln Lifes.
Manager Cleary has been keeping the mails and wires hot these past several weeks in an effort to make good his word given out previous to the game with the Philadelphia Athletics to the effect that if the fans showed by their support of the big time attractions that they really desired them he would exert himself to get them here. The closing with the Giants is the second big league club now booked here the Philadelphia Nationals, with Ralph Miller, local star, at third, being scheduled for League park on September 1, and there'll be others, declared Cleary, if the fans turn out in sufficient numbers at these.
August 18 1920 Giants defeated the Lifers 3-1 at League Park which is currently the west side of Headwaters Park. Attendance was 2,000
The Giants finished second in the National League that season.
The “ rest of the story “ here. There were 5 future MLB hall of famers at this game
Giants manager John McGraw
Giants 1baseman George Kelly
Giants third baseman Frankie Frisch
Giants pitching coach Christy Mathewson
Giants 2 baseman in the game who actually was a coach not a full time player Johnny Evers. You may remember him from the Cubs infield of Tinker to Evers to Chance fame.
Built in 1990, 105-117 W. Wayne Street and 904 S. Calhoun Street. The site of the Lillie Building was once home to many well-recognized local establishments including Azar’s restaurant, Greenblatt’s Furs, and M&N Shoe Store. See Lillie Building history with photos and timeline on midtowncrossing.net.
Lima Road
People sometimes wonder why it's called Lima Road, also known as Indiana State Route 3? Looking at a map it shows Lima Road goes north from Fort Wayne through Kendallville to Howe, Indiana. Shortly after 1834 the town was settled in an area known as Mongoquinong by the Potawatomi Indians a name given to the prairie in northeastern Indiana. Sometime after 1834 it became know as Lima, an 1876 atlas map shows the name as Lima, and sometime before 1884 was renamed for John B. Howe a local banker. So Lima Road north out of Fort Wayne used to go to Lima, now it goes to Howe, Indiana.
Was headquartered in Fort Wayne until 2008. Lincoln National Bank founded in 1905, received written permission from the late president’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, to use Lincoln’s image as its logo. The The Journal Gazette newspaper was founded in 1863 to provide an editorial voice in support of Abraham Lincoln and the ideals for which he stood. Abe Lincoln grew up in Spencer County, Indiana from age 7 to 21 from Abe Lincoln's enduring Hoosier legacy at 150 years published April 14, 2015 in The Journal Gazette newspaper now on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
They completed their new building in 1923. The Abraham Lincoln “Hoosier Youth” statue, cast in Belgium, was unveiled in 1932. See early photo posted August 11, 2017 on Fort Wayne Food Tours.
Lincolndale Drive-in
On Goshen Road. Often listed as 1422 which is a short distance west of the location shown in the maps below. Perhaps 1422 was the mailing address of the office rather than the location of the movie screen? See more Drive-ins.
The Lincolndale Drive-In was located near Franke Park. It opened on September 11, 1953 with George Montgomery in “Jack McCall Desperado” & Sterling Hayden in “Flat Top”. It was operated by United Film Booking Services. It was closed on September 8, 1979. From Lincolndale Drive-In at Cinema Treasures. Comment: rivest266, rivest266 on April 24, 2024 at 7:43 am. Closed September 8th, 1979, and the owners moved its screen to the new Lincolndale Drive-In in Warsaw in mid-1980. Article posted. [ article not found ]. Lincolndale Drive-In US 30 East, Warsaw, IN lipalarp, lipalarp on May 4, 2011 at 7:32 pm. My father built and owned the Lincolndale.He bought the Lincolndale Drive-in in Fort Wayne and the Peru Drive in and combined the best of the equipment to build the Warsaw Lincolndale. It died with his death.
Today, Mayor Tom Henry, city officials, and developer Barrett & Stokely held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the construction of The Lofts at Headwaters Park. Read more: http://bit.ly/41jh1IB
Today, Mayor Tom Henry, city officials, and developer Barrett & Stokely held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the construction of The Lofts at Headwaters Park.
At least eight Lustron houses were built in Fort Wayne. Between the years of 1948 and 1950, the Lustron Corporation produced porcelain- enameled steel, prefabricated houses in response to the post-World War II housing shortage in the United States. Despite being heavily funded by the federal government, inadequate start-up cost estimates, production and construction problems, and design deficiencies eventually resulted in the failure of the Lustron Corporation after producing just 2,680 houses. Approximately 187 of those were built in Indiana. Copied from April 18, 2018 Facebook post by ARCH ( Architecture and Community Heritage).These steel-and-ceramic dwellings still stand, more than 60 years later by Patrick Sisson in Lustrons: Building an American Dream House by Aria Danaparamita at National Trust for Historic Preservation. Lustron Homes, the ‘50s prefabs that were ahead of their time published October 10, 2016 on Curbed.com. Sometimes confused with Sears homes. They came with an assembly manual and a serial number. See Rebuilding a Prefab Home in the Indiana Dunes One family’s journey to resurrecting a mid-century Lustron for their vacation home. Posted on February 28, 2019 by Indiana Landmarks.
There is an August 2, 2010 Indiana MPS Lustron Houses in Indiana 28-page document in the National Archives Catalog for the NRHP National Registry of Historic Places National Park Service. For anyone wondering why Lustron quit making houses, on page 7 of the 28 page document it states: Standlund had projected the plant could produce 100 houses per day, but even at its best, the plant produced only 26 per day, and 50 per day were needed just to break even. On page 10 it states: it is estimated that approximately 187 Lustrons were built in Indiana, about 180 of which are still standing. It is known that, according to Lustron shipping records, 142 houses had been shipped to locations in Indiana by December 31,1949. ... The majority of Lustron models built in Indiana were the 2-bedroom, Westchester Deluxe, which is not surprising since this was the best-selling model for the company. ... Two Indiana Lustron homes are individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) [one in Chesterton, another in Indianapolis]. Page 17 shows floor plans and a photo of a 2-bedroom Westchester Deluxe model. Fort Wayne, IN (photo by Jill Downs).
#66 - 415 West Maple Grove near Fairfield and Hoagland on the south side of the block. The Lustron registry listed it in 2008 as blue-green. Google Street View map
#67 - 2510 Oakridge Road, Serial Number: 1723, off of State (Brookview Terrace) is listed in the National Register. It's a contributing house in the Brookview--Irvington Park Historic District. From Creager Smith April 29, 2022 comment on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook. The Lustron registry listed it in 2008 as gray with a 1 car garage. Google Street View map.
#68 - 3214 Parnell Avenue The Lustron registry listed it in 2008 as blue-green. Google Street View map.
#69 - 1133 Somerset Lane, Serial Number 1721, off Parnell. The Lustron registry listed it in 2008 as gray. Google Street View map.
#70 - 4105 Webster Street, between W. Rudisill and Lexington. The Lustron registry listed it in 2008 as tan. Google Street View map.
#206 4127 Rosewood Drive, Serial Number 835, on corner of Aboite Center Road and Rosewood Drive was disassembled for removal to Ohio. Unknown if reassembled. The Lustron registry listed it in 2008 as tan. Google Street View map.
Why people thought steel houses were a good idea posted Mar 29, 2022 by Vox on YouTube
Shared May 13, 2022 by Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS on Facebook It was supposed to be the future of housing. What went wrong? Why aren’t homes made of steel? In the late 1940s, one company posed that question. Lustron was a prefabricated home that was supposed to be the future of housing. So why did it fail? For just a few years — 1947 to 1950 — the Columbus, Ohio-based Lustron represented the future of housing. Using a steel frame and porcelain enamel-covered steel panels, Lustron made homes in a factory and shipped them around the country. Vox’s Phil Edwards visited a Lustron home just outside Dayton, Ohio, to experience the unusual features, like magnetic walls, for himself. This home’s quirks weren’t relegated to the materials. Through a combination of government funding sources, an attempt to reinvent the production cycle for home, and a unique distribution plan, the Lustron home helps explain how housing does — and doesn’t — work in America. See the video YouTubepage for suggested publications for more information.
Opened October 12, 1908 at 1014 South Calhoun Street as a home to vaudeville acts and movies. By 1929 it was operating as the Riley Theatre a burlesque place. Around 1942 it was renamed Wayne Theatre and was still open in 1955, but had closed by 1956, then was torn down in the 1960s. The downtown Hilton Hotel now stands on the site. From a colored postcard Wayne Theatre 1014 S. Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802 with comments on CinemaTreasures.com. A Lyric Theatre postcard is at CardCow.com. page 26 of the book Fort Wayne by Randolph L. Harter.
