Langley Park (Langley Park, Maryland)

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location=8151 15th Ave., Langley Park, Maryland
lat_degrees = 38
lat_minutes = 59
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long_degrees = 76
long_minutes = 58
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area =.6625 acres
built =1924
architect= George Oakley Totten, Jr.
architecture= Georgian Revival
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title=Announcements and actions on properties for the National Register of Historic Places, September 5, 2008 |accessdate=2008-09-05|work=New listings|publisher=National Park Service]
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Langley Park, also known as McCormick-Goodhart Mansion is a Georgian Revival style estate mansion in Langley Park, Maryland. This property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 2008. [ [http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/weekly_features/LangleyPark.pdf National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Registration Form for Langley Park (PG#65-7) (retrieved Sep 7, 2008)] .] It is the ninth property listed as a featured property of the week in a program of the National Park Service that began in July, 2008.cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/nrlist.htm |title=Weekly List Actions |accessdate=2008-09-05|work= |publisher=National Park Service]

The House

The house is a house.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/weekly_features/LangleyPark.pdf National Register of Historic Places Registration: Langley Park / McCormick-Goodhart Mansion] |32 KB|date=October, 2007 |author=Susan G. Pearl |publisher=National Park Service (80 pages including 30 photos and 2 maps)]

The architecture

In 1924, the McCormick-Goodhart family erected a 18,000 square foot, 28-room Georgian Revival mansion, designed by architect George Oakley Totten, Jr., at a cost of $100,000 that remains a community landmark on 15th Ave. [ [http://www.mncppc.org/county/Illustrated_Inventory906/21_73.pdf Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, "Inventory of Historic Sites" (Prince George's County), Entry 65-007, p. 36 (retrieved Sep 7, 2008)] .] Current plans are for the mansion to be redeveloped as a multicultural service center operated by CASA of Maryland; a $31 million project scheduled to open in 2009. [ [http://www.gazette.net/stories/101007/montnew55647_32358.shtml "Langley Park project highlights immigrant issues," by C. Benjamin Ford, "The Gazette.net," Oct. 10, 2007 (accessed Sep 7, 2008)] .]

The location

"Langley Park" references the 540 acre estate established in 1923, by the McCormick-Goodhart family in the Chillum District of Prince George's County, Maryland. They named the estate Langley Park after the Goodhart's ancestral home in England, Langley Fields. During the late-1940's and early 1950's the estate was subdivided and developed as a planned community containing low-rise apartments, semi-detached and single family homes; and a major regional shopping area.

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places featured properties and districts

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