Polaroid photograph of a house on the northwest corner of Wayne Street and Van Buren Street in the West Central neighborhood in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana.

This house was built in the early 1850s by Congressman Samuel Brenton. He represented the Fort Wayne area in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1851 to 1853, and then again from 1855-1857. In the Nineteenth Century, the West Central neighborhood was a wealthy area, where Fort Wayne's elites lived in beautiful homes like this one. By the late Twentieth Century, the area had become a rundown area whose grand homes had been divided into small apartments. Since then, the area has been slowly restored to its former glory, with many of the old houses restored to their original condition.

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