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PART II: Chapter 16 Historic Sites and Proposed Historic Sites

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72-010 Van Horn Mitchell House4706 Mann Street, Capitol Heights• c. 1803 2 ½ story brick, Federal style gable-roofplantation house with a five-bay main facade• Significant because of the prominence of Archibald VanHorn, state legislator <strong>and</strong> U.S. Congressman, <strong>and</strong> for20th century associations with local black community• Criteria 1c, 2a, 2e72-0<strong>16</strong> Webb-Brown House (Berry McKeel House)7600 Willow Hill Drive, L<strong>and</strong>over• c. 1870, two-part gable-roof frame house with bracketedcornice <strong>and</strong> porch posts• Main block built by lawyer John Webb; prominentl<strong>and</strong>mark in a developed residential area• Criterion 2a72-021 Highl<strong>and</strong> Park School6501 Lowl<strong>and</strong> Drive, Highl<strong>and</strong> Park• 1928, 1994, Colonial Revival style brick school; archedentrance surmounted by keystone <strong>and</strong> shaped parapet• Early high school for black students; same design<strong>and</strong> year of construction as Lakel<strong>and</strong> School (66-014)Prominent focal point in streetcar surburb of Highl<strong>and</strong>Park, an emerging black community; rebuilt 1994-95• Criteria 1d, 2a, 2e73-005 ε Belvidere, 11401 Belvidere Road, Mitchellville• c. 1825, ca. 1856 -two-story frame hip-roof houseattached to earlier 2 story gable-roof section; GreekRevival-style interior trim• Main block built by George W. Duvall; significantsurviving 19th-century farmstead in a rapidly developingsuburban area• Criteria 1c, 1d, 2a73-006 NR Newton White Farm & Cemetery2708 Enterprise Road, Mitchellville (M-NCPPC)• 1939 Regency Revival-style brick mansion designed bynoted architect William L. Bottomley• Designed <strong>and</strong> built for Captain Newton H. White, onetimecomm<strong>and</strong>ing officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise; includesmodel dairy farm buildings <strong>and</strong> cemetery; the l<strong>and</strong>,known as Warington, was owned for over a century bythe Waring family, six of whose members are buried in asmall fenced plot near the present mansion• Criteria 1a, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2c, 2eStaff Draft Preliminary <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>Sites</strong> <strong>and</strong> Districts Plan 143

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