Architecture in the Cleveland Park Historic District What is now Cleveland Park example in the neighborhood of a house designed to MODERN HOUSES began in the 18th century as be a summer home. The architecture of Cleveland Park has continued to a single estate of nearly 1000 Tregaron, 3100 Macomb Street: Tregaron was built evolve, with houses by several notable 20th-century acres. It was divided into in 1912 for arts patron James Parmalee and was architects. Arround the west end of Rosedale on smaller estates after the Civil purchased in 1941 by Joseph Davies and his wife Ordway and 36th Streets are several houses designed War, when the area served as Marjorie Merriweather Post. The estate has been the by the Faulkner family of architects between 1937 and a fashionable summer escape from downtown home of the Washington International School since the 1970s. 3415 and 3419 36th Street are by Waldron Washington. It was developed as a streetcar suburb 1980. The Tregaron Conservancy is working to restore Faulkner and date from the 1930s. 3530 and 3540 beginning in the 1890s, when trolley lines were the property. See TregaronConservancy.org for more Ordway Street and 3403, 3407, and 3411 36th Street extended over Rock Creek Park. Thanks to the information. were built by his son, Winthrop Faulkner, in the stewardship of many individual owners, institutions, 1960s and ‘70s. A 1962 house by I.M. Pei is at 3411 The Homestead (“La Quinta”), 2700 Macomb Street: conservancies, and the Cleveland Park Historical Ordway Street. Society, the neighborhood today retains the legacy of Designed in 1914 by architect Frederick Pyle, the APARTMENT HOUSES all of these periods of development in its architecture house was much enlarged and remodeled by its and landscapes. second owner, diplomat Walter Schoelkopf. The The Broadmoor (3601 Connecticut Ave.) and Tilden estate has been the residence of the Ambassadors Gardens (on Connecticut between Sedgwick and ESTATES of India since Indian independence in 1947. Tilden) are grand apartment buildings of the late Rosedale, 3501 Newark Street: Rosedale was the 1920s with Tudor and Jacobean Revival influences. EARLY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT estate of General Uriah Forrest, an aide-de-camp to Sedgwick Gardens (3726 Connecticut), 1931, is a fine General George Washington. The property once Many houses on Newark Street, Highland Place, and example of Art Deco style. The Macklin at encompassed all of modern Cleveland Park. The Ashley Terrace were built between 1894 and 1901 by Connecticut and Newark, from 1939, is an early yellow frame farmhouse at the center of the estate Cleveland Park’s first developer, John Sherman, who example of a mixed-use development. was built in 1793-94, in front of an early-18th-century commissioned several prominent architects to design COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR stone cottage. Rosedale’s 18th-century terraced large, gracious houses. These early houses represent The Fire House at 3522 Connecticut Avenue (1916) is landscape facing Newark St. is open to the public. It is a range of late-19th-century styles, including Queen the earliest structure on the Connecticut Avenue preserved in perpetuity by the Rosedale Conservancy, Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial commercial strip. The long block of Connecticut RosedaleConservancy.org. Revival, and Mission Revival. Avenue between Ordway and Macomb Streets is an HOUSES OF THE TEENS, TWENTIES, AND THIRTIES Oak View, 3542 Newark Street (demolished 1927): unusally intact example of a 1920s-1930s linear Oak View was a simple, two-storey stone farmhouse The development of Cleveland Park continued up to shopping strip. There are several well-preserved Art built in 1868 for General Forrest’s grandson. President World War II with Deco buildings on either Grover Cleveland purchased the house in 1886, homes in all the side of Connecticut “Victorianized” it with turrets and porches, and popular styles of between Ordway and used it as his summer home. When the house was the period, Macomb, including the demolished in 1927, stones from the house were used including many Uptown Theater at 3426 to build the wall that now surrounds the property. Craftsman Connecticut (1936). The foursquares and Twin Oaks, 3225 Woodley Road: Twin Oaks is a Park and Shop, next to bungalows, Tudor Revivals, and Wardman rowhouses. Colonial Revival-style mansion by Boston architect the Metro station, was Quebec and Rodman Streets are especially rich in Francis Richmond Allen. It was built in 1888 for designed in 1930 by architect Arthur B. Heaton and is bungalows. 34th Place has a particular concentration Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founder of the National one of the first car-oriented neighborhood shopping of foursquares, perhaps Cleveland Park’s most Geographic Society, and is the only remaining centers in the country. common house type. Our Mission: CPHS Membership Form The mission of the Cleveland Park Historical Society is to maintain and enhance the character and strength Please complete the form below and mail it of Cleveland Park as an historic, multifaceted, urban The with a check payable to CPHS to residential neighborhood. CPHS seeks to preserve the character of the historic district’s architecture, public CLEVELAND PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY space, and natural environment. It encourages P.O. BOX 4862, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20008 restoration of historic structures and new construction Cleveland Park that complements the character of the historic district. It undertakes projects to enhance the quality of public Name(s): space. CPHS engages in advocacy on behalf of the Historical neighborhood on matters that have a substantial bearing on residential and commercial architecture, ______streetscapes, and natural features within the historic Society district. It sponsors educational activities, research, and ______public programming in support of its preservation goals. Our History: Address: CPHS was founded in 1985 by a group of neighbors who banded together to save the 1930 Park and Shop ______neighborhood shopping center on Connecticut Avenue from destruction. Through the efforts of CPHS members, ______the Cleveland Park Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 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