Report of the Architectural Review Committee (ARC)
Monday, September 11, 2023
ARC Members attending: Christine Hobbs, Phil Eagleburger, Ron Ngiam, Anne Weir, David Kay, Danny Ince, Ana Evans, Stefan
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Cleveland Park is a National Register of Historic Places listed Historic District in Washington, D.C. The neighborhood developed as a “streetcar suburb” of Washington from the 1890s and contains a remarkable variety of architecture as well as designed and natural landscapes from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Cleveland Park became a National Register Historic District in 1987. Download the nomination here (text) and here (pictures). You can also find this development history of the commercial corridor. The DC Historic Preservation Office’s brochure about Cleveland Park gives an excellent overview of Cleveland Park’s history.
The Cleveland Park Historical Society (CPHS) is the neighborhood’s historic preservation and local history organization, working to preserve our legacy of architectural and landscape design. Everyone is welcome to become a member!
CPHS offers bronze historic house markers for houses in the Cleveland Park Historic District. For more information and to see if your house is eligible, please click here.
Cleveland Park’s Sears Houses
Date: September 9, 2023
Led by CPHS member Dr. Barbara Porter, this tour will examine many of the documented Sears & Roebuck catalog houses (“kit” houses) in Cleveland Park, dating between 1911 and 1929 and representing a multiplicity of architectural styles. There will also be a discussion about the economic and social aspects of this very American phenomenon.
In 1987, the Cleveland Park Historical Society produced the publication Cleveland Park: A Guide to Architectural Styles & Building Types. Noted Washington architect, John (“Wieb”) Wiebenson, provided drawings of composite houses illustrating Cleveland Park’s various historic building styles and types. We are pleased to be able to provide it now in digital format and it is now available to view or download here.
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CPHS will be partnering with our friends at the Art Deco Society of Washington once again for a redo of our popular tour of Art Deco buildings and great apartment
CPHS will be partnering with our friends at the Art Deco Society of Washington once again for a redo of our popular tour of Art Deco buildings and great apartment houses along Connecticut Avenue in Cleveland Park and nearby Woodley Park. Highlights will include Tilden Gardens, Sedgwick Gardens, the Broadmoor, Kennedy-Warren, and Woodley Park Towers.
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Report of the Architectural Review Committee (ARC)
Monday, September 11, 2023
ARC Members attending: Christine Hobbs, Phil Eagleburger, Ron Ngiam, Anne Weir, David Kay, Danny Ince, Ana Evans, Stefan
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CPHS will be partnering with our friends at the Art Deco Society of Washington once again for a redo of our popular tour of Art Deco buildings and great apartment houses along Connecticut Avenue in
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Monday, July 10, 2023
ARC Members attending: Christine Hobbs, Phil Eagleburger, Ron Ngiam, Anne Weir, David Kay, Danny Ince, and Win Brown. Also attending were Bonnie LePard, President, Cleveland
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Read about historic preservation review procedures and get all the contact info you need on this page.
For questions about the Architectural Review Committee (ARC) or to request a place on the next ARC meeting agenda,
email CPHS staff.
Check Upcoming Events for up-to-date information for the next ARC meeting. See also: ARC meeting agendas and reports.
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Cleveland Park Historical Society
P.O. Box 4862
Washington DC 20008
Line art in our site header is by the late architect John Weibenson for CPHS.
Springland Farm: Most Important US Vineyard (September 16 and 17, WalkTown Tours 2023)
As part of WalkTown Tours 2023 (Events DC and Cultural Tourism DC), Chuck Ludlam is again leading a tour of the Springland Farm, arguably the most important vineyard in the history of the US. Springland Farm is located at Tilden/Springland Lane (immediately north of the Cleveland Park Historic District). Signs-ups are open. This tour sells out.
Two Tours: The tour is offered twice: Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17. Both 10:00-12:00.
To sign up for this tour go to: www.eventbrite.com/e/springland-farm-americas-most-important-vineyard-2-tickets-695547179337?aff=...
First-come, first-served. If you sign up and can’t make it, please cancel your reservation so that others can sign up.
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Vintage postcard of the Broadmoor, at Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street NW in Cleveland Park, a luxury apartment building designed in an eclectic style by noted DC architect Joseph Abel, who specialized in apartment buildings. Completed in 1928, it features a rough "clinkered" brick finish and some hints of Art Deco. ... See MoreSee Less
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