Historic Tenleytown - Subdivisions and Neighborhoods

Search By Decade: 1910 - 1920

 
4620 Wisconsin Avenue, occupied by Henry Burrows family in 1910. Razed. (Helm, p. 74)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Hattie Burrows Porter

year: 1910
 

 
Chevy Chase Circle.
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Harriet Beane Kerins

year: 1911
 

 
Looking east from what is now Ward Circle - intersection of Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues. (Helm, p. 169)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: American University Archives

year: 1912
 

 
Dumblane, built according to plans from Gustav Stickley and The Craftsman in 1911 for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hazen Bond. Dunblane Oak visible at right, now on adjacent property. Property listed on DC Register of Historic Sites and National Register in 2005.
 

 
Dumblane, built in 1911.
 

 
Interior of streetcar facility on west side of Wisconsin Avenue at Harrison/Ingomar.
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Columbia Historical Society

year: 1914
 

 
May Day procession at St. Ann's Church. On left across the street (Wisconsin Avenue) is O'Day's General Store. Helm, p. 118) O'Days' bldg. is now part of Grant Road Historic District.
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Edna Lester Johnson

year: 1915
 

 
Willett's Spinning Wheel Tavern on River Road near Falls Branch. John Tennally's tavern, at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Rockville Pike was probably similar. (Helm, p. 18)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Columbia Historical Society

year: 1915
 

 
St. George's Mission Chapel, this bldg., located next to Jesse Reno School on Howard Street, on grounds of what is now Fort Reno Park, replaced the earlier chapel, a Reno City rowhouse. Established by members of St. Alban's for African Americans. (Helm, p. 131)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Where Washington Worships

year: 1917
 

 
Looking south on Wisconsin Avenue from Tenley Circle. (Helm, p. 176)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Della Lewis Beasley

year: 1917
 

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