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27-662: The Chevy Chase Arcade is an historic structure located in the Chevy Chase neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The building is a unique example of a small-scale commercial arcade in Washington. Built in 1925, it is located along Chevy Chase's commercial strip, Connecticut Avenue. The area was planned by

54-584: A streetcar suburb in present-day Chevy Chase, Maryland , several miles distant from Washington, D.C. The area northwest of today's Calvert Street NW was largely farmland when Francis Newlands , a sitting Congressman from Nevada, quietly acquired more than 1,700 acres in Northwest D.C. and Maryland along a five-mile stretch from today's Woodley Park neighborhood in D.C. to Jones Bridge Road in Maryland's Montgomery County . Meanwhile, he acquired control of

81-586: A bit further south are the Omni Shoreham Hotel and the landmark Wardman Park Hotel building, once the city's largest hotel. This section is also a major commuter route; until 2020, it had reversible lanes along most of its length that operated during the morning and evening rush hours (7–9:30 a.m. and 4–6:30 p.m.). It connects with the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway via 24th Street. Mid-century-era high-rise apartments line

108-646: A decrease in population in Ward 4, the Council of the District of Columbia voted to reassign the portion of the neighborhood east of Broad Branch Road to Ward 4 as of January 1, 2002. Many residents were upset at the decision. The Chevy Chase Civic Association sued to prevent the redistricting on the grounds that it would reduce African American voting strength in Ward 3 and would result in unconstitutional and racially motivated gerrymandering . The U.S. District Court for

135-571: A private, co-educational Catholic high school; and Blessed Sacrament School, a Catholic elementary school that enrolls some non-parishioners and non-Catholics. The District of Columbia Public Library operates the Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library . Connecticut Avenue Connecticut Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. , and suburban Montgomery County, Maryland . It

162-582: A residential streetcar suburb . (See Washington streetcars .) They founded the Chevy Chase Land Company in 1890, and its eventual holdings are now known as this neighborhood and Chevy Chase, Maryland . Chevy Chase D.C. was developed beginning in the early 1900s after construction was completed on the Chevy Chase Line , a streetcar line stretching to and beyond the northwestern boundary of the District of Columbia, thereby linking

189-464: Is Connecticut Avenue NW. The street is home to commercial establishments, apartments, a community center, and a regional branch of the D.C. Public Library . Unlike many urban neighborhoods that have lost local businesses to large chains and suburban malls, the small, generally locally owned businesses along Connecticut Avenue remain and are well patronized by the local population. These businesses include Magruder's Supermarket, established in 1875; and

216-494: Is carried over a deep valley on another bridge . Numerous older, Art Deco high-rise apartment buildings line the 3000 block, with slightly newer apartment buildings in the 4000 and 5000 blocks. The National Zoological Park sits halfway between the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan and Cleveland Park Metro stations. A bit further north is the strikingly futuristic former headquarters of Intelsat ;

243-615: Is generally agreed to be bounded by Rock Creek Park on the east, Western Avenue (which divides D.C. and Maryland) and Tennyson Street on the north, and, to the west, Reno Road and the Friendship Heights neighborhood. Opinions differ on the southern boundary, where Chevy Chase meets Forest Hills , but many residents consider it to be Broad Branch Road between 32nd and 27th streets. The main roads leading in and out of Chevy Chase, D.C. are Connecticut Avenue , Nebraska Avenue , Reno Road, Military Road and Western Avenue . The area

270-521: Is one of the diagonal avenues radiating from the White House , and the segment south of Florida Avenue was one of the original streets in Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant 's plan for Washington. A five-mile segment north of Rock Creek was built in the 1890s by a real-estate developer . Connecticut Avenue was first extended north from Rock Creek around 1890 as part of an audacious plan to create

297-585: Is served by the M4, L2, L8, E2, and E4 Metrobus lines. Chevy Chase is within walking distance of three Red Line stations: Van Ness-UDC , Tenleytown-AU , and Friendship Heights . The public schools that serve Chevy Chase are Lafayette Elementary, Ben W. Murch Elementary, Alice Deal Middle School, and Jackson-Reed High School . In the late 1880s, then-Representative Francis G. Newlands of Nevada and his partners began to buy up farmland in northwest Washington, D.C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland , to develop

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324-411: The Chevy Chase Land Company as one of four commercial areas along the street that are separated by apartment blocks. The Arcade is an example of providing elegant and convenient shopping venues in the city's prestigious suburban neighborhoods. The Classical Revival building was designed by Louis R. Moss. The exterior features a limestone façade with monumental pilasters , large windows to display

351-471: The Avalon Theatre, which opened in 1923 as a silent film house and ran until the theater underwent renovations in 2003. The Avalon thereafter reopened as a non-profit movie theater. The area's parks include Rock Creek Park , Lafayette-Pointer Park, and Livingston Park. Until 2002, the entire neighborhood was located in Ward 3. After the 2000 census revealed an increase in population in Ward 3 and

378-884: The District of Columbia upheld the redistricting, as did the U.S. Court of Appeals. After the redistricting, the neighborhood's Advisory Neighborhood Commission was called 3/4G. In 2023, the Chevy Chase DC Conservancy (CCDCC) applied to designate the neighborhood a historic district by the District’s Historic Preservation Review Board. The neighborhood is served by the District of Columbia Public Schools , including Lafayette Elementary , Alice Deal Junior High School , and Jackson-Reed High School . Private schools in Chevy Chase D.C. include St. John's College High School ,

405-750: The Kalorama neighborhoods. (The Kalorama Triangle Historic District extends eastward from Connecticut, while the Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District lies to the west.) The avenue then crosses Rock Creek Park on the William Howard Taft Bridge and goes through upper Northwest Washington, D.C., including the Woodley Park , Cleveland Park , Forest Hills, and Chevy Chase, D.C. neighborhoods. Between Woodley Park and Cleveland Park, Connecticut Avenue

432-605: The White House at Lafayette Square . It is interrupted by Farragut Square . North of Farragut Square and K Street , Connecticut Avenue is one of the major streets in downtown Washington , with high-end restaurants, historical buildings such as Sedgwick Gardens , hotels, and shopping. As Connecticut Avenue approaches the Dupont Circle neighborhood, it splits at N Street into a through roadway and service roadways . The through roadway tunnels under Dupont Circle, while

459-450: The area to downtown. Over succeeding decades, the formerly remote area was transformed from farmland and woods to middle-class housing. Chevy Chase D.C. includes many kit houses , including Sears Catalog Homes and others, a popular housing option in the early twentieth century that allowed individuals of modest means to order by mail the materials and instructions for a home and build it themselves. The neighborhood's major commercial road

486-660: The avenue, with elegant, older detached homes on shady side streets. The road passes the main campus of the University of the District of Columbia near the Van Ness metrorail station. Connecticut Avenue is an arterial route in the National Highway System between K Street and Nebraska Avenue. Connecticut Avenue leaves the District of Columbia at Chevy Chase Circle, at the intersection of Connecticut and Western Avenues . Upon entering Maryland, it gains

513-524: The line's full length in 1892, connecting to their terminus at 18th and U Streets NW via the railway's iron trestle across the Rock Creek gorge. In 1907, the Taft Bridge across Rock Creek connected the southern and northern segments of Connecticut Avenue. In 1932, the Newlands bridge over the tributary was replaced by the current Klingle Valley Bridge . Connecticut Avenue begins just north of

540-456: The merchant's wares to pedestrians as they pass by and an arched entry way to the central arcade of shops and the offices on the second floor. The interior of the building features a vaulted ceiling , clerestory lighting, a black and white marble floor, plaster ornamental moldings and sylvan bas-relief panels. [REDACTED] Media related to Chevy Chase Arcade at Wikimedia Commons Chevy Chase (Washington, D.C.) The neighborhood

567-679: The middle of Connecticut Avenue to Chevy Chase Circle, then ran on to its terminus at Chevy Chase Lake, an amusement park just south of today's Jones Bridge Road. A third streetcar line, the Chevy Chase Lake & Kensington Railway (later, the Kensington Railway Company) began operations in 1895, running north from Chevy Chase Lake on Connecticut Avenue for a half mile before diverging to the right and heading on to Kensington, Maryland . Streetcar operations on Connecticut north of Rock Creek ended in 1935; their service

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594-583: The nascent Rock Creek Railway , which had a charter to build a streetcar line in the District. Beginning in 1888, Newlands and his partners graded a roadway, laid streetcar track down its center, and erected a bridge over a Rock Creek tributary. The road proceeded in a straight, 3.3-mile line north-northwest from today's Calvert Street to today's Chevy Chase Circle , then another 1.85 miles due north to Coquelin Run , yet another Rock Creek tributary near today's Chevy Chase Lake Drive. The streetcars began operating along

621-652: The route designation Maryland State Highway 185 and runs through the Chevy Chase, Maryland , postal area. This stretch is lined by the Chevy Chase Club, the former National 4-H Youth Conference Center, and Columbia Country Club . After interchanging with the Capital Beltway at Exit 33, Connecticut Avenue enters Kensington , where it is the major north-south street of the central business district. Connecticut Avenue long ended at University Boulevard ( Maryland State Highway 193 ). Then Concord Avenue

648-522: The service roadways intersect the outer roadway of the circle. The through roadway and service roadways rejoin at R Street. Originally, there was no tunnel, and all vehicular traffic on Connecticut Avenue went through the circle. The tunnel was built in 1949 to serve vehicles and a Capital Transit streetcar line that operated until 1962. After crossing Florida Avenue near the Hilton Washington hotel, Connecticut Avenue narrows and winds between

675-550: Was replaced by buses . "It was the most significant District streetcar abandonment up to that time", the Washington Post would write. The Red Line of the Washington Metro subway system runs beneath Connecticut Avenue. Metro stations along or near Connecticut Avenue include: The following Metrobus routes travel along the street (listed from south to north): The following Ride On routes travel along

702-408: Was extended northward to form an extension of Connecticut Avenue that passes through Wheaton and Aspen Hill . The state route designation ends at Georgia Avenue ( Maryland State Highway 97 ). Connecticut Avenue, now simply a local street, continues past Georgia Avenue and ends at Leisure World Boulevard. For more than six decades, Connecticut Avenue was host to various streetcar lines. The first

729-820: Was the Connecticut Avenue and Park Railway (soon absorbed by the Metropolitan Railroad ), which opened in April 1873 and ran from the White House to Boundary Avenue . In 1890, the Rock Creek Railway began operating from a terminus on Boundary Avenue two blocks east of Connecticut Avenue; its streetcars ran across the Rock Creek gorge on an iron bridge near today's Duke Ellington Bridge , then turned north onto Connecticut near today's Calvert Street intersection. The line continued down

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