Fort Wayne Park and Boulevard System Historic District, Historic district in Fort Wayne, United States.

Fort Wayne Park and Boulevard System Historic District is a large urban area comprising 11 parks, multiple tree-lined avenues, and numerous residences in various architectural styles from the early 1900s. The entire system is knitted together through landscaped corridors and pathways designed as one cohesive plan.

Two landscape architects created this urban park system around 1909 as a practical vision for modern city planning. The design applied contemporary ideas about bringing nature into a growing industrial city.

The district demonstrates how a city was meant to grow with both green spaces and residential architecture working together. Walking through today, you can see how neighborhoods were designed to connect people to public parks as part of daily life.

The system spans 11 public parks, four parkways and ten boulevards across Fort Wayne, so plan a route rather than expecting one compact site. The 2010 National Register listing covers 34 contributing buildings, 61 sites, 70 structures and 15 objects, spread over a wide area best covered by car between stops.

This system was added to the National Register only in 2010, despite being over a century old. The delayed recognition shows how easily urban planning achievements can be overlooked by history.