13.07.2015 Views

PART II: Chapter 16 Historic Sites and Proposed Historic Sites

PART II: Chapter 16 Historic Sites and Proposed Historic Sites

PART II: Chapter 16 Historic Sites and Proposed Historic Sites

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

• Built for Carrie Warren; one of two houses of this designin the county• Criteria 1a, 2a, 2e,68-004-05 ε NHL Riversdale (Calvert Mansion)4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park• 1801-1807, 2-story hip-roof stuccoed brick, lateGeorgian mansion, with flanking hyphens <strong>and</strong> wings,<strong>and</strong> fine interior plaster detail; stuccoed brick servants’quarter on immediate grounds, unique mansionpatterned after Belgian chateau• Built for Henri Joseph Stier, finished by his daughterRosalie <strong>and</strong> her husb<strong>and</strong> George Calvert; home of Stiers<strong>and</strong> Calverts, including agriculturist Charles BenedictCalvert, founder of Maryl<strong>and</strong> Agricultural College(University of Maryl<strong>and</strong>)68-004-67 Read House4722 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park• c. 1892, 2 ½ story frame dwelling of Queen Anne-stylewith hip roof, projecting bays <strong>and</strong> elaborately detailedwraparound porch• One of earliest dwellings built in the 1889 subdivisionof Riverdale Park, a significant example of Queen Annestyledomestic architecture; purchased by George B.Read in 1903• Criteria 1d, 2a, 2e68-004-76 Wernek House4606 Queensbury Road, Riverdale Park• c. 1892, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with 3 storysquare tower• Early house erected near railroad station <strong>and</strong> streetcarline; first owned by Mary Weeks Jones• Criteria 1d, 2a, 2e68-010-01 Welsh House4200 Farragut Street, Hyattsville• 1889-90, 2 ½-story frame cross-gabled dwelling withpanelled, bracketed gables; fine example of a lateVictorian house with Queen Anne-style decorativeelements• Built for banker Charles H. Welsh who was instrumentalin Hyattsville’s development• Criteria 1a, 1c, 2a, 2e120 Staff Draft Preliminary <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>Sites</strong> <strong>and</strong> Districts Plan

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!