Tag: Chevy Chase

A little-known story about upper northwest is that Reno Road, which cuts right through the heart of North Cleveland Park to Chevy Chase, was...

We love sharing old real estate advertisements from the area. Check this one out, showing a home in Chevy Chase, published on January 6th,...

It's been a long time since we posted anything online. Sorry about that, but having two little kids makes it extremely difficult to keep...

This great old advertisement from The Washington Times was printed in 1913. Click on it for some great details and read through the copy. Source: Library...

We love digging up old ads from the papers like this one showing some great old real estate in Chevy Chase. You could get...

This is a cool old 1909 map of the area around Friendship Heights and Chevy Chase. Thanks to GoDCer Claire for pointing out that...

We found this cool 1907 map of Chevy Chase, showing a much more rural, pre-developed area. It looks like the Shoemaker family owned quite...

Here's a beautiful old home in Chevy Chase advertised for sale in the Sunday, November 6th, 1921 edition of The Washington Herald. It was listed...

The next time your father or grandfather tells you he never found himself in trouble during his youth, approach that claim with some skepticism,...

Above is an advertisement from The Washington Herald from October 21st, 1922 showing Chevy Chase.

Source: Streets of Washington When the Chevy Chase Ice Palace and Sports Center opened on Nov. 23, 1938, it became an instant sensation. On opening day...

Andrew J. ‘Cy’ Cummings was a larger- than-life figure in the early 1900’s in Chevy Chase, a football star at Georgetown, a successful farmer,...

GoDCer Charlie requested this the other day via Facebook and we wanted to oblige. It's a map of Connecticut Avenue from 1919 Source: Library of...

Photos like this are great. Look at the old homes on Morrison Street back then and check out the Google Street View today. Also,...

These are a couple great photos of Chevy Chase Country Club in the 1920s, thanks to the Library of Congress.  

If you lived in D.C. in the 1980s, seeing a police chase screaming down K St., or any other major thoroughfare, was not a...

Here's a great photo from November 1942. It's from the Chevy Chase Ice Palace.

Here's a page from the real estate section of the Sunday Washington Times on June 7th, 1908.

Do you attend The Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church? If you do, maybe you recognize the interior of the church. This photo from Shorpy dates...

This is a map of Chevy Chase, Section 2, near the District. It dates from 1890 and we dug this up at the Library...

Do you live in Chevy Chase? Was your down payment $500? I think it's safe to say that's off by a factor of around...