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How Chevy Chase was built, from DC's historic building permits, and what the newspaper said about it a hundred years ago this week.
| Decade | Buildings |
|---|---|
| 1900s | 54 |
| 1910s | 376 |
| 1920s | 957 |
| 1930s | 1,463 |
| 1940s | 577 |
| 1950s | 363 |
| 1960s | 21 |
| 1970s | 33 |
| 1980s | 29 |
| 1990s | 3 |
| 2000s | 2 |
| 2010s | 5 |
Each record is one building listed on a historic DC building permit; a single permit can cover many buildings. The busiest decade is highlighted in the chart.
In 1912, Harry Wardman built 19 buildings on the 3700 block of Jocelyn Street NW under 3 permits, designed by White (Frank Russell) & Co.. The largest permit covered 14 buildings at an estimated $48,000 in total.
Mentions of Chevy Chase in the Evening Star, October 31 – November 6, 1926. Searched for "Chevy Chase, D. C.", "Chevy Chase, D.C.".
“Price has been materially reduced. $31,000 Chevy Chase, D. C. Among’beautiful surroundings, a little over a square west of Conn. ave. and well tills side of the Circle, in a section of new. high-class homes, on a lot with a frontage of 75 …”See page 42 at loc.gov ↗
“… weather-stripped, lighted by electricity and heated hY mo*t improved vapor system; oak floors, of course, and all that goes to round out a real home. $13,750 Chevy Chase, D. C. On an avenue about 2 squares from Conn, ave, a brand-new detaohed home with 6 rooms and bath and garage; right up to date as regards oak floor hot-water heat and light: one of the …”See page 44 at loc.gov ↗
“BUYS! $13,450 In Chevy Chase, D. C. Just off Connecticut ave. in a section of all fine old detached homes.”See page 56 at loc.gov ↗
Clips are machine-read text (OCR) from scanned Evening Star pages on the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, lightly cleaned (line-break hyphens rejoined, stray symbols removed); misspellings are the scanner's. Newspapers this old are public domain. Each clip links to its page at loc.gov. Clips that mention race, covenants, deed restrictions or slurs are skipped automatically (keyword list: race, races, racial, colored, coloured, negro, negroes, white only, whites only, for whites, white people, white persons, white residents, caucasian, segregation, segregated, covenant, covenants, restricted, restriction, restrictions, plus a list of slurs), because they need an editor's context; legal notices and lists of private individuals are skipped too.
We haven't found a recorded oral history about Chevy Chase in a public archive yet.
Search the archives yourself: The People's Archive, DC Public Library · Historic Chevy Chase DC Oral History Archive · Humanities Truck Community Archive, American University · Tenleytown Historical Society · Boundary Stones (WETA). Summaries are ours; the recordings and their rights stay with each archive.