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PART II: Chapter 16 Historic Sites and Proposed Historic Sites

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• Church serving black community at this location since1871; present building replaces church founded byLewis Ridgely in 1871 to serve local black Methodistcommunity; moved a short distance back from the majorhighway <strong>and</strong> restored• Criterion 1d72-006 Carmody House, 6808 Drylog Street, Capitol Heights• 1895, early 20th-century additions, 2 ½ story crossgabledframe dwelling which has undergone numerousadditions• Home of Francis Carmody, banker <strong>and</strong> developer of SeatPleasant; one of few remaining examples of turn-ofthe-centuryrural residential architecture in the inner-Beltway area• Criteria 1c, 2a72-007-01 Old St. Margaret’s Roman Catholic Church6020 Addison Road, Seat Pleasant• 1908, one-story, gable-roof frame church with comerbell tower• Significant for its Gothic Revival architecture <strong>and</strong> for itsconnection with Francis S. Carmody, developer of SeatPleasant• Criteria 1c, 2a, 2e72-008 E NR Addison Chapel & Cemetery5610 Addison Road, Seat Pleasant• 1810 <strong>and</strong> 1905, simple rectangular gable-roof brickchapel with Stick-style gable decoration• Built as upper chapel of St. John’s, Broad Creek,replacing earlier frame structure; many prominentprominent individuals from the Bladensburg area areburied in the cemetery72-009-09 Fairmount Heights School737 61st Avenue, Fairmount Heights• 1912; 2 story frame schoolhouse of institutionalFoursquare form; a pyramidal roof cupola rises from thefront plane of the hip roof <strong>and</strong> the original schoolbell ispreserved inside• Designed by noted black architect William SidneyPittman of Washington, D. C.; after its construction, ithad the only facilities for industrial training of blacksin Prince George’s County; Served as school until 1934;important l<strong>and</strong>mark in Fairmount Heights• Criteria 1c, 1d, 2a, 2eStaff Draft Preliminary <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>Sites</strong> <strong>and</strong> Districts Plan 141

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