South Wayne Historic Neighborhood/Wildwood

The South Wayne Historic District is an example of a historic district which

is currently listed only on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable as a neighborhood which illustrates the expansion of Fort Wayne in

the early 20th century and for its outstanding collection of early 20th

century domestic architecture, the South Wayne Historic District was listed

on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Most of the area which

comprises the South Wayne Historic District was once part of an 80 acre

tract operated as a county farm between 1848 and 1853. When the farm was

 divided and sold, a few houses were built but the area remained rural in

character. One of the best known of the country estates built in the area was

that of Judge Lindley M. Ninde, who in the 1860′s, built an impressive

house known as “Wildwood” on Fairfield where the present Lutheran

Center for Health Services is located.