Polaroid photograph of the little white church in the Prairie Grove Cemetery on Old Trail Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I photographed it early in the morning when the light was very warm.

Believed to have been built in 1858, this is one of the oldest buildings in Fort Wayne. It was originally a United Brethren Church. In the late 1990s, it was used by a small non-denominational church called Grace Bible Fellowship, but it has been unused since it closed. The cemetery owns the building and maintains it.

in 2008, vandals set fire to the church in the middle of the night. Fortunately, there is a Fort Wayne Fire Department station a block away from the cemetery; and they were able to stop the fire before it caused too much damage.

7-24-22