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08jun7:00 pm9:00 pmCPHS Annual Meeting and Board Elections

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For this year’s annual meeting, we are please to have two guest speakers—Steve Knight, President of the Art Deco Society of Washington (ADSW), and

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For this year’s annual meeting, we are please to have two guest speakers—Steve Knight, President of the Art Deco Society of Washington (ADSW), and Deborah Chalfie, ADSW Preservation Chair—for what should be a most interesting talk about Cleveland Park’s Art Deco heritage and future.

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(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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17jun10:00 am12:00 pmCleveland Park Walking Tour: Newark Street Architecture

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Join CPHS’s Camilla Carpenter and Stephen Hansen for an historical walking tour of Cleveland Park’s iconic Newark Street – a street that embodies the architectural history of the

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Join CPHS’s Camilla Carpenter and Stephen Hansen for an historical walking tour of Cleveland Park’s iconic Newark Street – a street that embodies the architectural history of the Cleveland Park Historic District.  Over the years, Newark Street became home to almost every style of American residential architecture, from Rosedale’s colonial vernacular, Queen Anne, various revival styles, to Art Deco and modernism. Come and learn more about these buildings, styles, and histories.

This tour is now full. To add your name to the waiting list, please click here.

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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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september

09sep10:00 am12:00 pmCleveland Park’s Sears Houses: A Walking Tour

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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

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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.

Tours are free to CPHS members.  Registration will be open shorty.

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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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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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Uptown Theater Neighbors Draft Plan To Keep It A Theater

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The group has already raised $460,000 in pledges for the idea.
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