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Calvert Hills Historic District is a national
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
in College Park,
Prince George's County ) , demonym = Prince Georgian , ZIP codes = 20607–20774 , area codes = 240, 301 , founded date = April 23 , founded year = 1696 , named for = Prince George of Denmark , leader_title = Executive , leader_name = Angela D. Alsobrook ...
,
Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
. It is roughly bounded on the north by Calvert Road, on the east by the
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metrorail corridor (the former
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), on the south by the northern boundary of Riverdale Park, and on the west by Baltimore Avenue (
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). It does not include Calvert Park on the southeast corner. Primarily a middle-class single-family residential neighborhood, it also includes some apartment houses as well as the College Park Post Office, a
contributing property In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...
at 4815 Calvert Road.


History

The district was developed in the early part of the 20th century by members of the Calvert family who were descendants or other relatives of
Charles Benedict Calvert Charles Benedict Calvert (August 23, 1808 – May 12, 1864) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861 to 1863. He was an early backer of the inventors of the ...
, the owner of Riversdale Plantation and Rossborough Farm and the founder of what is now the
University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...
. Calvert Hills was annexed into the city of College Park in 1943. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2002.


References


External links

*, including photo dated 2001, at Maryland Historical Trust
Boundary Map of the Calvert Hills Historic District, Prince George's County
at Maryland Historical Trust {{National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Historic districts in Prince George's County, Maryland Queen Anne architecture in Maryland Colonial Revival architecture in Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Prince George's County, Maryland Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Prince George's County, Maryland