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By Tom Bosse, May 18, 2024
Fort Wayne’s Nationally Celebrated Park & Boulevard System Marker
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| | A leading urban architect of his time, Robinson was hired by Col. David Foster to beautify Fort Wayne. Among his ideas for Fort Wayne was our now nationally celebrated Park and Boulevard System. He and Foster successfully teamed to sell the . . . — — Map (db m248570) HM |
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Foster hired Adolf Janicke during a chance meeting at a horticultural exposition in Philadelphia. A Berliner who had worked in that city’s parks and gardens, Janicke became Fort Wayne’s first urban forester and park designer. When he arrived in . . . — — Map (db m248571) HM |
| | Georg Kessler was born in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany, grew up in Texas and returned to Jena for his formal education in garden and landscape design. Foster brought him to Fort Wayne to design the Park and Boulevard system that Robinson had . . . — — Map (db m248576) HM |
Jul. 1, 2024
