February 15, 2019 post by The Landing Fort Wayne on Facebook:
The concrete pillars that stand at the intersection of Columbia and Harrison Streets are from the Wayne Hotel.
— thinking about old memories.
Harrison and Columbia streets. Built as the Wayne, sold and renamed Jones, then Rosemarie Hotel. Designed by local architect Frank B. Kendrick, and built in 1887 on the site of Dana Columbia’s original 1831 twenty-room Columbia House hotel (for whom Columbia Street is named
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- Fire of 3 February 1975 photo on Allen County Public Library Digital Collections at the Allen County Public Library.
- Canal Hotels on Rosemarie Alley by Tom Castaldi, local historianpublished February 27, 2014 on History Center Notes & Queries blog.
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February 3, 2017 post by Allen County Public Library on Facebook:
On this day in 1975, the Rosemarie Hotel, located downtown on Columbia Ave, burned. Arson was named as the cause for the fire, the second in a series of three fires that ripped through several other buildings on the landing including Protective Electrical Supply, Old Fort Draperies and Third Presbyterian Church on Harrison. The Diehm Memorial Museum of National History at Franke Park was also destroyed by arson less that 2 weeks later. Read more about the fire in our Genealogy Center archives (https://goo.gl/RRIRR8) and more about the hotel from the The History Center (https://goo.gl/an87Mz).
February 5, 1975 newspaper clippingat Allen County Public Library.
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August 16, 2018 post by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook:
For "Throwback Thursday" we share this staff photo by John Sorensen from the Fort Wayne Journal - Gazette on February 5, 1975 showing the lobby of the Rosemarie Hotel on The Landing after a fire on February 3rd. BTW...Hofer and Davis did many surveys On The Landing in 103 years!
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August 23, 2018 post by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook:
For "Throwback Thursday" we revisit the fire on February 3, 1975 of the Rosemarie Hotel on The Landing. This is a photo by Journal - Gazette photographer John Sorensen and article by Al Brakoniecki.
- Throwback Thursday: February 1975, fires on The Landing published with photos August 30, 2018 on The Journal Gazette newspaper. A story about fires in the 141-year-old Rosemarie Hotel and the five-story Old Fort Draperies office building, at Columbia and Harrison streets on The Landing on February 3, 1975 and then a second fire in the Old Fort Draperies and a separate blaze about the same time at Third Presbyterian Church on Harrison the next day February 4, 1975.
Arson was suspected in both office building fires and the hotel blaze. Both buildings were eventually razed. The Old Fort Draperies site is now a parking lot, and the Rosemarie Hotel site was later replaced by an ivy covered structure that has recently been torn down as part of a project to revitalize the one-block stretch of Columbia Street between Harrison and Calhoun streets.