Polychrome Historic District
Polychrome Historic District | |
 Polychrome Historic District, April 2010 | |
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| Location | 9900 and 9904 Colesville Rd., 9919, 9923, and 9925 Sutherland Rd., Silver Spring, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°1′5″N 77°0′57″W / 39.01806°N 77.01583°W |
| Area | 1.1 acres (0.45 ha) |
| Built | 1934 |
| Architect | Earley, John Joseph; Kennedy, J.R. |
| Architectural style | Art Deco |
| NRHP reference No. | 96000900[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 29, 1996 |
The Polychrome Historic District is a national historic district in the Four Corners neighborhood in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. It recognizes a group of five houses built by John Joseph Earley in 1934 and 1935. Earley used precast concrete panels with brightly colored aggregate to produce the polychrome effect, with Art Deco details. The two-inch-thick panels were attached to a conventional wood frame. Earley was interested in the use of mass-production techniques to produce small, inexpensive houses, paralleling Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian house concepts.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Constnce Peterson Terry (August 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Polychrome Historic District" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polychrome Historic District.
- Polychrome Historic District, Montgomery County, including photo in 2003, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Boundary Map of the Polychrome Historic District, Montgomery County, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-1077, "Polychrome House No. 1, 9900 Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29), Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD"
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- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Art Deco architecture in Maryland
- Four Corners, Maryland
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Houses in Montgomery County, Maryland
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland
- National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland
- Washington metropolitan area, Maryland Registered Historic Place stubs
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