Sunday, October 1, 2017

Fort Wayne, IN: History Center/City Hall and Spy Run Blockhouse

Former City Hall: (3D Satellite)
Fort: (Satellite, 2,127 photos)

Please read Tom's History first.

posting of a link of Fort Wayne innovations.

Street View

I'm so glad this building has been preserved. It was still the City Hall when I was a kid (mid 1900s). I remember that I toured it when I was a kid. The one thing I remember is that it had the city jail. When the new City-County Building was built, the Historical Society was able to move from the far west side of town to this more centrally located building. And they retained the historic 1897 county courthouse after the new building was built.

Keven Childers posted several images that include these postcard images.

1, City Hall, Fort Wayne, Ind. c 1911

2, City Hall - Fort Wayne, Ind. c. 1906

3, City Hall, Fort Wayne, Ind. c. 1908

4, City Hall, Fort Wayne, Ind. no date

5, City Hall, Ft. Wayne, Ind. c. 1910

6, City Hall, Ft. Wayne, Ind. early 1900s

7, 10953. City Hall, Fort Wayne, Ind. c. 1914

8, Fort Wayne City Hall no date

9, Fort Wayne's old City Hall - now the History Center - c. 1950s [Best of Fort Wayne II, G. Mather 2001]

10, 'Mid-century view of East Berry Street looking west...' [Best of Fort Wayne II, G. Mather 2001]

11, 5930. City Hall, Fort Wayne, Ind. c. 1912

12, Greetings of Ft. Wayne Ind - Post Office - City Hall c. 1900

13, City Hall, Fort Wayne, Ind. c. 1908 [sepia]

Silva Lining Photography posted
HISTORY
[That is the Lincoln Tower in the center background.]

Silva Lining Photography posted
A little bit of history... Zoom in and enjoy!

Silva Lining Photography posted
Different Perspective
[An exaggerated keystone affect.]

Silva Lining Photography posted
HISTORY

Ignacio Silva shared
Larry Dumbrowski When it was the police station I had to take my car there to have it inspected due to having too loud of mufflers.
Victor Fitch My dad took me there and had the Sgt put me in a cell. "Just so you know that if you get in trouble... this is where you will end up!" So far so good. lol
Bill Didier Where is the jail now??
Waneta Kiefer Bill Didier city jail is in the Rousseau Ctr, which runs the block between Clinton and Calhoun, across from the Court House, used to be a couple of bars and union halls. County jail is at the corner of Superior and Calhoun, across from where the old Trolley Bar was, to the north, grandma called that area tent city!


Tommy Lee Fitzwater posted

Dennis Boyd Microwave tower in the background?

Thomas Cain Dennis Boyd this is Barr Street, looking north from Washington. What was News Sentinel building on left (now Unired Way), before 1st Wayne Church built, and after 1910s Market Buildings demolished. Tower in back is GTE, prior to their 1970s renovation. The white box building at rear left is Wolf and Dessauer, where the were moving to about the time of the fire. That's now Citizens Square.

Jack C. Shutt Dennis Boyd Yes. That is the old GTE microwave tower, before the "lighthouse tower" was built on top of the building.
[Fort Wayne had General Telephone Electric instead of AT&T for the phone service.
The stone building in the middle is the Old City Hall.]

John Hume The newest vehicle I see in the photo is a '59 Chevy on the far right. Can't tell what year the Ford Falcon is parked two spaces in front of the Chevy.

Marc Servos I admit I didn't notice the Falcon at first, thanks. Obviously from the 1960-63 model year range, which I assume '60 models being on market in late 1959. But we don't see the front to help pinpoint the model year.

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Spy Run Blockhouse



Javier Masini, CVS, Jul 2022, cropped
 
Historic Fort Wayne posted
March [2024] at the Old Fort
Revolutionary War Garrison
March 2nd
Saturday Only: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Civil War Garrison
March 23rd 
Saturday Only: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Historic Fort Wayne posted five photos with the comment: "The reconstruction on the Spy Run Blockhouse is getting ready to begin!!!  The beams were delivered early this morning from Tennessee.  Construction equipment will be setting up next week, and work is scheduled to begin the week of March 18.  We'll be posting updates and pictures here throughout the process, so stay tuned."
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