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Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10101-10151 Colesville Road and 16-20 University Boulevard East, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
- Title: Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10101-10151 Colesville Road and 16-20 University Boulevard East, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
- Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Schreier & Patterson
Johannes & Murray
Moss Realty Company
Moss, George Joseph
E. L. Daniels Company
G & C Properties Corporation
Society of Architectural Historians , sponsor
Jacobs, James A. , project manager
Reggev, Kate S. , historian
Bieretz, Renee , photographer - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Photo(s): 18
Color Transparencies: 1
Data Page(s): 42
Photo Caption Page(s): 2 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HABS MD-1419
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: Conceived as the gateway to the planned residential community of Woodmoor, Maryland, the Woodmoor Shopping Center opened its first group of six stores in early 1939 and continued to grow over the next three decades along with the population of Woodmoor. Designed by the local firm of Schreier & Patterson, who were also the architects of Woodmoor’s houses, the shopping center was intended to provide basic services to the local community and complement, rather than replace, the downtown retail district. The center was such a boon to the neighborhood that it tripled in size in 1948, adding eleven more stores and second-story professional offices. Another addition in 1954 included four more stores with a bowling alley in the basement. Woodmoor Shopping Center’s role as a community center was further cemented in 1958 with the addition of a library. The regular expansion of the Woodmoor Shopping Center parallels the explosive post-World War II population growth of Washington, D.C. and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Surprisingly, despite the more than seven discrete periods of construction and addition, the Woodmoor Shopping Center presents a unified and harmonious façade rendered in a Streamline Moderne mode distinct from the traditional and colonial design used for the neighborhood’s houses. The use of blond brick, horizontal banding, limestone window surrounds, angled storefronts, fluted metal window hardware, marble and plate glass storefronts, aerodynamic curved corners, and front and rear parking lots attest to the modern, automobile-conscious nature of the center and were continued throughout each addition. The result is a complex whose phased enlargements are difficult to identify to even the most careful observer. In the 1960s and 1970s, Woodmoor Shopping Center escaped the economic decline that most small, local shopping centers in Montgomery County experienced as a result of the emergence of larger regional shopping malls and the continued growth of the metropolitan area even further from the District line. It contained essential stores and services accessible by car or on foot, and remained unified both architecturally and economically, all of which assured its continued place as the principal cornerstone for the Woodmoor community.
- Survey number: HABS MD-1419
- Building/structure dates: 1939 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: before 1951 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1954 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: before 1965 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1970 Subsequent Work
- Subjects:
- shopping centers
- shopping
- Streamline Moderne architectural elements
- offices
- florist shops
- barbershops
- parking lots
- suburbanization
- suburban life
- residential facilities
- brick
- marble cladding
- plate glass
- passageways
- bowling alleys
- community centers
- Modern architectural elements
- commerce
- commercial facilities
- bowling
- recreation
- sports & recreation facilities
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 39.020722, -77.011702
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HABS MD-1419
- Medium:
Photo(s): 18
Color Transparencies: 1
Data Page(s): 42
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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- Call Number: HABS MD-1419
- Medium:
Photo(s): 18
Color Transparencies: 1
Data Page(s): 42
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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