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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262T_mcdonnell-house_College-Park-MD.html
The McDonnell House was built in 1896 by Henry B. McDonnell as a 2½-story, cross-gabled frame house with wraparound porch, ornamental gable shingles and slate roof. It is a good example of simplified Queen Anne-style domestic architecture. A …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262S_cory-house_College-Park-MD.html
The Cory House, built in 1891, was one of the first houses built in the 1889 Johnson and Curriden's subdivision of College Park. A rear addition was built in 1925. The structure is a two-and-a-half story frame house with well-defined pediments and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262R_harrison-store-trolley-stop-sweet-shop_College-Park-MD.html
These two structures, built circa 1910 in the Colonial Revival style, represent the first commercial resources in the neighborhood. Both buildings were apartments with ground floor commercial space. The store drew its customers from riders of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262Q_holbrook-house_College-Park-MD.html
The Holbrook House was built in 1927. It is a two-story, stucco-covered frame dwelling in the Spanish Mission style with a hip roof, decorative-shaped parapets, projecting bays and an open porch. It is an excellent example of a mail-order house an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262P_graham-cracker_College-Park-MD.html
Built circa 1963, the Graham Cracker is a group of seven sorority buildings constructed on the block bounded by Knox Road, Princeton Avenue, College Avenue, and Yale Avenue with a common landscaped courtyard and parking in the center. These two-an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D7Q_r-lee-hornbake-library_College-Park-MD.html
Panel 1:R. Lee Hornbake LibraryProfessor of Industrial Education 1947-1979Dean of the Faculty 1957-1960Vice President for Academic Affairs 1960-1979Our American tradition of freedom and justice, of respect for learningand each individual, and of r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D3C_from-stagecoach-to-streetcar-to-subway-a-college-town-emerges_College-Park-MD.html
College Park was incorporated by referendum in 1945. However, the city's origin goes back much further. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, College Park began to emerge from farmland both as a transportation hub and as a center fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D3B_calvert-hills-a-national-register-historic-district_College-Park-MD.html
The Calvert Hills neighborhood, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December of 2003, is an example of the residential development that occurred on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. during the early 20th Century. Calver…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CD2_college-park-airport_College-Park-MD.html
The following notable events occurred on this airfield1909 - Wilbur Wright instructed first flying officers of Signal Corps, U. S. Army 1911 - First Army flying school established hereFirst bombsite tested from an aircraft1912 - First group cross …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1973_the-rossborough-inn_College-Park-MD.html
Erected in 1798 in the infancy of the nation and a few years before the founding of the University of Maryland. The Rossborough Inn stands as one of the landmarks of the nation's and of the University's growth. This historic structure has been res…