2010/11/14: Jim Sack on Rudisill Boulevard, segment 4

Jim Sack delivered a lecture on "the landscape history of Rudisill Boulevard." Rudisill Boulevard is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The lecture is part of the 2010 Friends of the Park's public lecture series.

Rudisill Boulevard has long been one of the grand corridors in Fort Wayne extending from Foster Park at its western terminus to McMillen Park to the east. A part of the historic Park and Boulevard System designed by nationally celebrated city planner and landscape architect George E. Kessler, Fort Wayne residents continue to value the beautiful mansions, residential neighborhoods, tree allée plantings and the bustling commercial district along Rudisill Boulevard.

Jim Sack, resident of Rudisill Boulevard, one of the founders of Germanfest, the German Heritage Society and the Gera-Fort Wayne Sister City relationship, will share his vast knowledge of the landscape history of Rudisill Boulevard, highlighting the contribution of German planning pioneer George E. Kessler.

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• Fort Wayne
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• George Kessler
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