An Office Building Gets New Life as Apartments
An office building at University Town Center will soon be reborn as apartments. Built in 1968, the 10-story building at 3700 East-West Highway is directly behind the new Safeway, around […]
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University Park’s Secret Historic Cemetery
/in University Park/by Alison BeckwithUniversity Park has a Revolutionary War-era cemetery, but you’d be forgiven if you didn’t know about it. Hidden on a quiet residential street in the historic district of University Park […]
Riverdale Park’s Historic Train Stop
/in Riverdale Park/by Alison BeckwithYou can credit the family that owned the Riversdale mansion for Riverdale Park’s historic train stop. At the turn of the 19th century, the Calvert family owned a 729-acre plantation north of […]
Alchohol Fuels Once-Dry Hyattsville’s Rebirth
/in Hyattsville, Mount Rainier, Riverdale Park/by Ryan Teague BeckwithHyattsville was once a dry town, a place where you couldn’t get anything stronger than a Coca-Cola at a soda shop on Baltimore Avenue. Things have changed, to say the least. […]
Meet Route 1’s Very Own Dinosaur
/in Brentwoods, College Park, Hyattsville, Mount Rainier, Riverdale Park, University Park/by Ryan Teague BeckwithRoute 1 has its own dinosaur, and there are several local sites where you can learn more. Astrodon johnstoni was a long-necked sauropod from the Early Cretaceous period which lived in Maryland […]
A Historical Photo of the Singer Building
/in Mount Rainier/by Ryan Teague BeckwithThe Singer Building is getting ready for a renovation. Here’s a look at the historic Mount Rainier building in days gone by. The photo was taken on a glass negative and […]
A Famous Bob Dylan Song’s Hyattsville Ties
/in Hyattsville/by Ryan Teague BeckwithOn Aug. 28, 1963, Bob Dylan was 22 years old and William Devereux Zantzinger was 24. A folk singer from New York, Dylan performed at the civil rights march on Washington where Martin […]
Hyattsville’s Other Historic District
/in Hyattsville, University Park/by Ryan Teague BeckwithThanks in part to its annual house tour, which takes place today, the Hyattsville Historic District is well-known. But there’s another historic district in the area that’s not as well-publicized: College Heights Estates. The neighborhood […]
Hyattsville Wire Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
/in Brentwoods, College Park, Hyattsville, Mount Rainier, Riverdale Park, University Park/by Alison BeckwithThis month, the Hyattsville Wire celebrates its fifth anniversary. In May of 2012, we started this website because we felt communities along Route 1 weren’t being covered well, especially online, where […]
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