Historic Tenleytown - Subdivisions and Neighborhoods

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Aerial rendering of the Sears Roebuck store with rooftop garage. Wisconsin Avenue in foreground, Albemarle Street to left.
source: Tenleytown Historical Society Collection

c/o: Madison Marquette/Roadside Development

year: 1940s
 

 
Sears Roebuck Co., interesection of Wisconsin Avenue and Albemarle Street.
source: Tenleytown Historical Society Collection

c/o: Madison Marquette/Roadside Development

year: 1940s
 

 
Wisconsin Avenue facade Sears Roebuck Co.
source: Tenleytown Historical Society Collection

c/o: Madison Marquette/Roadside Development

year: 1940s
 

 
Sears Roebuck Co., northwest corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Albemarle Street.
source: Tenleytown Historical Society Collection

c/o: Madison Marquette/Roadside Development

year: 1940s
 

 
This photo was taken of my mother and father, while he was on leave. It's in front of the old Peoples Drug Store on Wisconsin Avenue and Albemarle Street.
source: Private Collection of Judy Holzwart

c/o: Judy Holzwart

year: 1940s
 

 
This photo was taken of my mother and father, while he was on leave. It's in front of the old Peoples Drug Store on Wisconsin Avenue and Albemarle Street.
source: Private Collection of Judy Holzwart

c/o: Judy Holzwart

year: 1940s
 

 
A Tenleytown Resident - Mrs. Byrum
source: Private Collection of Judy Holzwart

c/o: Judy Holzwart

year: 1940s
 

 
Sears, Roebuck's innovative parking roof on the store's opening day, October 1, 1941. Store located on corner of Albemarle Street and Wisconsin Avenue. (Helm, p. 218)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Washingtoniana Collection, DC Public Libraries

year: 1941
 

 
4839, 4837 and 4835 Wisconsin Avenue. (Helm, p. 75)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Ray Johnson

year: 1942
 

 
Giant Food Store, opened in 1939, on Wisconsin Avenue just south of Brandywine. Subsequently, Hechinger's Lumberyard, and as of 2006 CVS Pharmacy. Parking on roof. (Helm, p. 193)
source: Tenleytown, DC - Country Village Into City Neighborhood

c/o: Marjorie Collins, Library of Congress

year: 1942
 

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