Historic Chevy Chase DC
Eighty, Meet 18: Seniors Talk, Youth Listen, and a Valuable Collection is Born HCCDC is starting a new inter-generational oral history collection in Chevy Chase DC this fall involving residents of the community’s five retirement residences. Its intent is to capture the stories and memories of the eldest among us — whose lives are rich …
You see them everywhere in Chevy Chase DC — oval brass historic markers that identify a house for the date it was built and the craftsmen who built it. But invisible to the eye is the woman has kept the plaque program alive for the past couple of decades. For that, we have the late …
Historic Chevy Chase DC, an all-volunteer community organization, voted on March 27 against supporting a controversial Historic District application raised by a newly formed neighborhood group called the Chevy Chase Conservancy. This decision, by a 9-3 vote of the full board of directors, might — on its face — appear to be a contradiction of …
Tracing the Burial Sites of Early Blacks in Chevy Chase DC to Georgetown We invite you to take a deep dive into local history by watching a recording of a Feb. 7, 2024, webinar hosted by HCCDC featuring two guest historians, Mark Auslander of Mount Holyoke College and Lisa Fager of Black Georgetown Foundation. The …
Linda Mann of the African American Redress Network shared an overview of what repair for past racists harms might look like in communities across America during a June 21 webinar sponsored by HCCDC. Listen to the hour-long recording HERE. HCCDC President Carl Lankowski was host of the evening with moderator Chas Cadwell. It was the …
A recording of the day-long public hearing by the DC Council Committee on DC Business & Economic Development can be viewed here. Hosted by D.C. Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie, the hearing included testimony from three descendants of the Broad Branch Road enclave that was racially cleared a century ago, as well as Black Broad Branch …
HCCDC held a virtual webinar on June 7 to introduce some descendants of the African American families evicted nearly a century ago from Broad Branch Road in Chevy Chase DC to current residents. The well-attended virtual event included a pre-recorded intimate conversation among descendants talking about their reactions and perceptions of learning about this long-forgotten …
A recording of the Jan. 18 webinar entitled, “Pushed Out: A Story of Race Relations in Chevy Chase DC,” is now available. Listen to the virtual discussion featuring authors Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green here. The hour-long talk, hosted by Historic Chevy Chase DC and moderated by local activist Corey Shaw Jr., focused …
The U.S. Senate in the 1930s authorized a memorial on Chevy Chase Circle. Money was raised for the installation of Francis G. Newlands Memorial Fountain. Newlands’ white supremacist views led to proposals and local debate about renaming the fountain in 2014. Despite involvement by local members of Congress, no action has been taken as of …
Submitted during the Public Comment Period, March 13-May 14, 2022
A recording of the April 7 Zoom program about the draft Chevy Chase Small Area Plan (CCSAP) titled “What’s In It? How Can We Improve It?” is now available. Sponsored by Historic Chevy Chase DC with Ward3Vision, the 60-minute talk brought together urban planning experts to help us add value to the plan during the …
A recording of the latest virtual webinar program sponsored by Historic Chevy Chase DC on development options and the Small Area Plan is now available. This 75-minute Zoom program, recorded on Oct. 6, features a technological peek at how Chevy Chase DC along Connecticut Avenue might look if density and affordable housing increase to meet …
The third and final Zoom discussion on HCCDC’s “Planning Our Future” series, held on June 9, is now available on YouTube. The discussion about the affordable housing crisis facing Washington DC — and in particular Ward 3 — featured experts on all sides of the issue examining proffered solutions to the affording housing needs in …
Last month in Chevy Chase DC a quiet bidding war ensued. A house had gone on the market that represented a bygone era -- the oldest standing farmhouse, circa 1862.
Third Program in "Planning Our Future" Series Airs June 9
Oral histories of eight descendants of Chevy Chase DC’s Broad Branch Community of Black landowners evicted in the 1920s are now being conducted by college students as part of an academic-community partnership between HCCDC and the University of the District of Columbia. The histories, to be documented on this website, are the first phase of …
Historians Neil Flanagan and Kimberly Bender have shared a recording of their Feb. 24 Zoom presentation about how a Black housing development in what is now Friendship Heights was scuttled by white developers. The pre-recorded portion of the event followed by a live Q&A is now posted on YouTube here. The program, sponsored by DC …
