New homes are selling on the former site of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in Hyattsville’s Historic District.
The 16 single-family detached homes and 15 row homes on a triangle of land bordered by Hamilton and Gallatin streets and 41st Avenue were built by Annapolis-based developer Werrlein Properties.
The long-empty WSSC building, which dated to 1939, was torn down in 2019 after local preservationist groups weren’t able to save it.
Initially called Magruder Pointe after the nearby park, the project was renamed after the city began reconsidering the name, eventually renaming it David C. Driskell Community Park.
The project is now called Suffrage Point, after the suffragists who gathered in a park on the site in 1913 before a motorcade to Washington, D.C. to push for the right to vote.
Four of the homes already have offers and one is under contract. Although contract prices on the homes aren’t public yet, they are listed at over $1 million, while the row homes start at $750,000.
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