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Historic Chevy Chase DC

HCCDC is celebrating its 30th year as a nonprofit historical society conducting research and documenting the history, design architecture, landscape, streetscape and development of Chevy Chase DC, a lovely circa-1907 community in Northwest Washington DC.

We have captured more than 32 oral histories of our residents, conducted a rigorous research study of the community’s desire for a Historic District, organize history-related talks and events and conduct a popular Historic Walking Tour every September, among many other activities. We welcome your involvement and interest!

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UDC Wins Humanities Grant for Pointer-Related Project

December 6, 2020

HCCDC to Partner on “Black Land Loss in Washington: Memories of the Past, Hopes for the Future”

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DC Council Votes to Rename Park in Honor of Black Landowners

December 5, 2020

The DC City Council on Dec. 1 approved a preliminary measure to rename our local park “Lafayette-Pointer Park and Recreation Center.” The addition of “Pointer” honors the Black community evicted from the 6-acre site in 1928 so a school and park could be built for whites only. Tim Hannapel of Historic Chevy Chase DC, who …

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Virtual History Walking Tour of Chevy Chase DC Now Available

1930s image of Chevy Chase Circle DC

December 5, 2020

If you missed our live Virtual “Walking” History Tour of Chevy Chase DC on Zoom on Nov. 17 you are in luck! We have now posted it for your enjoyment.

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Listen to Recording of “The Marquis de Lafayette & George Pointer”

October 26, 2020

Joined in Ideology, and Now in a Park Several dozen neighbors joined  the latest installment of HCCDC’s “Race Matters Locally” series on Oct. 15 to explore the connection between George Pointer and the Marquis de Lafayette. These two names will be joined by a hyphen when the Lafayette Park and Recreation Center on Broad Branch …

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Events

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21jan7:00 pm8:00 pmA Virtual Tour of DC's Racialized Housing LandscapeSarah Shoenfeld in "Race Matters Locally" Zoom Series

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Sarah Shoenfeld in “Race Matters Locally” Zoom Series Join the Zoom Talk Here at 7 p.m. Jan. 21 Housing

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Sarah Shoenfeld in “Race Matters Locally” Zoom Series

Join the Zoom Talk Here at 7 p.m. Jan. 21

Housing is a key factor in shaping the opportunities available to people of all races and backgrounds. Homeownership is a platform for wealth creation and for giving people a say in shaping the city, but has historically been an unattainable goal for the majority of DC residents.

Sarah Jane Shoenfeld of Prologue DC
Sarah Shoenfeld

In our next session of an occasional series called “Race Matters Locally,” HCCDC’s Carl Lankowski will partner with the Chevy Chase Citizens’ Association’s Ted Gest to interview Sarah Jane Shoenfeld of Prologue DC, an expert on the intersection of race and housing.

The free Zoom presentation at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21, titled “DC’s Racialized Housing Landscape,” will be an eye-opening discussion on the historic role racially restrictive deed covenants have played in shaping how neighborhoods look today, despite being outlawed more than 70 years ago. She will also talk about how former federal housing programs and redlining are responsible for today’s persistent racial wealth gap and widespread housing insecurity.

Shoenfeld, an independent scholar and public historian, co-directs the project Mapping Segregation in Washington DC with Mara Cherkasky. The map-based project documents the former extent of racially restricted housing in the nation’s capital along with other historic mechanisms of segregation and displacement. An earlier Zoom presentation with Cherkasky about the project can be viewed here.

Prologue DC engages in a variety of history projects, including research for exhibitions and films, historic landmark and district nominations, oral histories, and walking tours. Recent projects include a successful historic-landmark nomination for Barry Farm Dwellings, a World War II-era public housing project in Anacostia slated for redevelopment, and an online tour of African American Civil Rights sites in DC.

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NEW! Read about the latest intrigues of Chevy Chase DC’s past in Cate Toups Atkinson’s most recent blog post. Reach her at cate.atkinson@gmail.com

5611 Chevy Chase Parkway Fireplace

Four Fireplaces, One Mansion?

Four bungalows were built side by side on Chevy Chase Parkway in 1911. They each had identical Victorian marble fireplaces in different shades, likely salvaged from a mansion razed on Washington Circle.

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Our Projects

HCCDC’s initiative to recognize the history of Black landowners forced out in 1928 to create Lafayette Park includes a plan to rename the park to Lafayette-Pointer Park. The letter above was written in 1829 by George Pointer, a slave who bought his own freedom at age 17 and whose descendants settled on Broad Branch.

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House Histories

Carl and Pam Lankowski in front of McKinley Street NW House Chevy Chase DC

HCCDC’s online archives hold a growing collection of social and architectural histories of Chevy Chase DC houses, including Pam and Carl Lankowski’s 1919 kit house on McKinley Street.

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Historic House Plaques

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Oral History Interviews

Judith Adams

Judith Clark Adams

Judith Clark AdamsRead More

Allen Beach

Allen Beach

Allen BeachRead More

Ralph Benson

Ralph Benson

Ralph BensonRead More

Dallas Dean

Dallas Dean

Dallas DeanRead More

L. Bernice Degler

L. Bernice DeglerRead More

Barara Dresner

Barbara Dresner

Barbara DresnerRead More

Sarah (Sally) Epstein

Sarah (Sally) Epstein

Sarah (Sally) EpsteinRead More

Brock Evans and Linda Garcia

Brock Evans and Linda Garcia

Brock Evans and Linda GarciaRead More

Allie Felder

Allie Felder

Allie FelderRead More

James Fisher and Tanya Hardy

James Fisher and Tanya Hardy

James Fisher and Tanya HardyRead More

Jeffrey Gildenhorn

Jeffrey Gildenhorn

Jeffrey GildenhornRead More

Miss Ella Given

Miss Ella GivenRead More

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