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Langley Park, also known as McCormick-Goodhart Mansion, is a Georgian Revival style estate mansion in Langley Park, Prince George's County, Maryland. In 1924, the McCormick-Goodhart family erected a 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2), 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.[3]
"Langley Park" references the 540-acre (2.2 km2) 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. The estate also included the local historic landmark, the Adelphi Mill. During the late-1940s and early 1950s 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. [2] 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.[4]
This property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 2008.[5] 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.[1][6]
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- ^ a b c "Announcements and actions on properties for the National Register of Historic Places, September 5, 2008". New listings. National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20080905.HTM. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ^ a b Susan G. Pearl (October, 2007), National Register of Historic Places Registration: Langley Park / McCormick-Goodhart MansionPDF (32 KB), National Park Service (80 pages including 30 photos and 2 maps)
- ^ Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, "Inventory of Historic Sites" (Prince George's County), Entry 65-007, p. 36 (retrieved Sep 7, 2008).
- ^ "Langley Park project highlights immigrant issues," by C. Benjamin Ford, "The Gazette.net," Oct. 10, 2007 (accessed Sep 7, 2008).
- ^ National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Registration Form for Langley Park (PG#65-7) (retrieved Sep 7, 2008).
- ^ "Weekly List Actions". National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/nrlist.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
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