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46-603: The Montgomery Playhouse is Maryland's second oldest continually-running community theatrical performance group. Formed in 1989 from a merger between through a joint effort of the Board of Directors of both The Kensington/Garret Players and The Montgomery Players , The Montgomery Playhouse, in some form, has been providing theater performances for 85 years. The third oldest community theater in Maryland (The Vagabond Players enters their 99th continual season as of September 2014 and

92-501: A border dispute with Pennsylvania . Several settlers were taken prisoners on both sides and Pennsylvania sent a committee to Governor Ogle to resolve the situation. Rioting broke out in the disputed territory and Ogle appealed to the King for resolution. Faced with this situation, Charles sailed to Maryland and personally assumed charge of the colony in 1732, becoming for a brief period governor in his own right. His purpose in undertaking

138-778: A campus in Chevy Chase. For decades, a six-block stretch of Wisconsin Avenue in Friendship Heights and Chevy Chase has been the only place partially or wholly in Washington, D.C., with multiple traditional department stores , namely, Bloomingdale's , Saks Fifth Avenue , Lord & Taylor and Neiman Marcus . The latter two closed in 2020, as did the indoor shopping center at the Chevy Chase Pavilion. As of 2022, two department stores remain, both on

184-582: A grand estate originally built in the seventeenth century by Richard Evelyn, brother to John Evelyn the diarist. He made many changes to the house, though his brothers complained that he "pulled down everything" and "finished nothing". Charles died in 1751 and was succeeded by his eldest legitimate son, Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore . Unlike his father, Frederick Calvert took little interest in politics, treating his estates, including Maryland, as mere sources of revenue to indulge his appetites, which were considerable. By 1776 Maryland had been engulfed in

230-822: A hotel at 7100 Connecticut Avenue; it opened it in 1894 as the Chevy Chase Spring Hotel and was later renamed the Chevy Chase Inn. "The hotel failed to attract sufficient patrons, especially during the winter months," wrote the Chevy Chase Historical Society, and in 1895, the Land Company leased the property for a year to the Young Ladies Seminary. Part of the original Cheivy Chace patent had been sold to Abraham Bradley , who built an estate known as

276-866: A member of The Writers Center in Bethesda, MD, the idea was to foster a relationship between the two organizations to help local writers get their works seen. Unfortunately, the connection between The Writers Center and The Montgomery Playhouse never did achieve its full potential. However, from this meeting, the Black Box New Play Festival was born. This short play festival was designed to encourage writers to submit new work for stage presentation. The winners of this festival would represent The Montgomery Playhouse in regional and national competitions. The works of local and nationally notable writers, such as John Morogiello and Mark Scharf have been showcased in these festivals. The festival remains

322-577: A newly renovated 305-seat theater that they would call their own. This group, up through the merger in 1989, had produced 60 continuous seasons of community theater. The Garrett Park Players organization originated in 1949. In their early years they performed on rented stages in local schools and recreation centers throughout Montgomery County, Maryland . In 1960 they merged with the Kensington Players (who had been performing for several years at Kensington Junior High School). This combined group

368-610: A summer staple to Montgomery Playhouse's bill of fare to this day, performing in the Arts Barn in the Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland . Chevy Chase, Maryland Primarily residential, Chevy Chase adjoins Friendship Heights , a popular shopping district. It is the home of the Chevy Chase Club and Columbia Country Club , private clubs whose members include many prominent politicians and Washingtonians. The name

414-664: A woman "of the highest rank in England". In 1742, aged about ten or twelve years, the young Benedict was escorted to America and placed in the care of Dr. George H. Steuart , an Annapolis physician and a political ally of the Calverts. It appears Charles Calvert also had two illegitimate children by Cecil Mignon Bressan (b. 1717), daughter of Peter Bressan : Charles Cecil Bressan Calvert and Augustus Bressan Calvert. Charles lived with his family at Woodcote Park in Epsom , Surrey ,

460-479: Is derived from Cheivy Chace , the name of the land patented to Colonel Joseph Belt from Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore , on July 10, 1725. It has historic associations with a 1388 chevauchée , a French word describing a border raid, fought by Lord Percy of England and Earl Douglas of Scotland over hunting grounds, or a " chace ", in the Cheviot Hills of Northumberland and Otterburn . The battle

506-519: Is served by the Montgomery County Public Schools . Residents of Chevy Chase are zoned to Somerset, Chevy Chase or North Chevy Chase Elementary School, which feed into Silver Creek Middle School, Westland Middle School and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School . Private schools in Chevy Chase include Concord Hill School, Oneness-Family School , and Blessed Sacrament School. Rochambeau French International School formerly had

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552-633: The American Revolution and the Calverts would lose control over their proprietary colony for good. Charles Calvert's portrait, along with those of the other Barons Baltimore, still hangs today in the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore , the city that bears his family name. The historian Thomas Carlyle described Calvert as "something of a fool, judging by the face of him in portraits, and by some of his doings in

598-521: The Washington streetcars system. Newlands and his partners founded The Chevy Chase Land Company in 1890, and its holdings of more than 1,700 acres (6.9 km ) eventually extended along the present-day Connecticut Avenue from Florida Avenue north to Jones Bridge Road. Newlands, an avowed white supremacist , and his development company took steps to ensure that residents of its new suburbs would be wealthy and white; for example, "requiring, in

644-510: The Admiralty from 1742 to 1744. He died in 1751 in England, aged 52. Charles Calvert was born in England on 29 September 1699, the eldest son of Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore , and Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore . His grandmother Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield , was the illegitimate daughter of Charles II , by his mistress, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland . Like

690-558: The Bradley Farm. In 1892, Newlands and other members of the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C., founded a hunt club called Chevy Chase Hunt, which would later become Chevy Chase Club. In 1894, the club located itself on the former Bradley Farm property under a lease from its owners. The club introduced a six-hole golf course to its members in 1895, and purchased the 9.36-acre Bradley Farm tract in 1897. In 1906,

736-640: The Chevy Chase Country Club barred "Negroes" and "one ethnic group of Caucasians" from membership. In response, Club president Randall H. Hagnar denied that the club excluded Black or Jewish people; he said that no members were African-Americans but that several were Jewish. In 1903, Lea M. Bouligny bought the old Chevy Chase Inn and founded the Chevy Chase College and Seminary . The name was changed to Chevy Chase Junior College in 1927. The National 4-H Club Foundation purchased

782-501: The Chevy Chase Land Company blocked a proposed subdivision called Belmont after they learned its Black developers aimed to sell house lots to other African Americans. In subsequent litigation, the company and its affiliates argued that those developers had committed fraud by proposing "to sell lots...to negroes." By the 1920s, restrictive covenants were added to Chevy Chase real estate deeds. Some prohibited both

828-570: The City of Gaithersburg, recognizing the accomplishments by offering an additional venue to perform smaller, more intimate performance pieces at the newly renovated Gaithersburg Arts Barn, a 99-seat theater. To this date, the Montgomery Playhouse performs at both venues. In November 1993, local actor and playwright Eric C. Peterson pitched an idea to the Montgomery Playhouse that it needed to foster and develop young, talented writers. As

874-541: The Italian polymath accompanied Calvert and sent detailed accounts of the journey to and from St Petersburg to his friend Lord Hervey . Also in the party were mathematician Erasmus King, and young Thomas Desaguliers , son of Dr John Theophilus Desaguliers . Baltimore was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for St Germains , a rotten borough in Cornwall, from 1734 to 1741, and was MP for Surrey from 1741 to 1751. He

920-408: The Maryland side: a freestanding Saks Fifth Avenue and a Bloomingdale's in a multiuse center that also includes a Whole Foods Market , boutiques, and residential and office space. Along the D.C. stretch of Wisconsin Avenue are: On the Maryland stretch are: Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore , FRS (29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751)

966-866: The Potomac Playmakers in Hagerstown began in 1926), The Montgomery Players have been in existence since 1929, where they performed regularly in the Chevy Chase, Maryland area at Leland Junior High and the Landon School. In 1962 the group relocated to Inverness Playhouse in North Bethesda, Maryland, where they spent the next ten years performing there. In 1972 The Montgomery Players once again moved and took up residence at 1201 Quince Orchard Boulevard in Gaithersburg, Maryland in

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1012-635: The State of Maryland by the University of Maryland ). In 1727 Lord Baltimore appointed his brother, Benedict Leonard Calvert , governor of the colony, replacing his cousin Captain Calvert. The handover of power from cousin to cousin was not entirely smooth. Captain Calvert insisted on retaining fifty per cent of the 3 pence tobacco duty which was his due under legislation passed in 1727. Benedict

1058-629: The colony of Maryland, though he appointed his cousin Charles Calvert , then a captain in the Grenadier Guards , as governor. In 1722, Charles Calvert, fifth Baron Baltimore found himself in financial difficulties and sold the Kiplin estate , his family's home since 1620, to his mother's second husband (his stepfather) Christopher Crowe for £7,000 (approximately £550,000 in modern currency) (later purchased as historical inheritance for

1104-602: The daughter of Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet , and Williamza or Williamsa Henley. Mary's sister, Barbara, married Thomas Bladen a year later. Charles and Mary had three children: Charles also had an illegitimate son, Benedict Swingate Calvert , born in around 1730–32. His mother's identity is not clear but H. S. Lee Washington, writing in the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register in July 1950, suggests that she

1150-481: The deed to the land, that only a single-family detached house costing a large amount of money could be constructed. The Chevy Chase Land Company did not include explicit bars against non-white people, known as racial covenants, but the mandated cost of the house made it impractical for all but the wealthiest non-white people to buy the land." Houses were required to cost $ 5,000 and up on Connecticut Avenue and $ 3,000 and up on side streets. The company banned commerce from

1196-568: The grantee to sit in the House of Commons in London. As a consequence, many Irish peers had little or no connection to Ireland. George II said of Charles Calvert: "there is my Lord Baltimore, who thinks he understands everything, and understands nothing: who wants to be well with both Courts and is well with neither, and who, entre nous, is a little mad." On 20 July 1730, Charles married Mary Janssen, who died at Chaillot , Paris , on 25 March 1770,

1242-612: The long journey was chiefly to settle the dispute with Pennsylvania, as well as to attend to other pressing matters. Violence had broken out on the border with Pennsylvania, with Maryland loyalists such as Thomas Cresap engaging in violent exchanges with hostile Pennsylvanians. Unfortunately for the Marylanders, Charles unwittingly agreed to a settlement of the territorial dispute with Pennsylvania, based on an inaccurate map, using calculations of latitude and longitude which were either wrong or were deliberately omitted. Upon realizing

1288-559: The loss to Pennsylvania of approximately one thousand square miles of Maryland territory. In 1732 Calvert returned to England, again leaving the government of Maryland in the hands of Governor Samuel Ogle , and pursued a successful career in English politics. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a friend of fourth- cousin , Frederick Louis who was Prince of Wales and the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain . He

1334-535: The part of the Rock Creek Forest neighborhood that lies east of Jones Mill Road and Beach Drive and west of Grubb Road. In the 1880s, Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada and his partners began acquiring farmland in unincorporated areas of Maryland and just inside the District of Columbia, for the purpose of developing a residential streetcar suburb for Washington, D.C. , during the expansion of

1380-469: The property in 1951, turning it into the group's Youth Conference Center. For decades, the center hosted the National 4-H Conference, an event for 4-Hers throughout the nation to attend, and the annual National Science Bowl in late April or early May. The National 4-H Club Foundation sold the center in 2021 for $ 40 million; as of 2022, it is to be replaced by a senior living development. Chevy Chase

1426-456: The residential neighborhoods. Leon E. Dessez was Chevy Chase's first resident. He and Lindley Johnson of Philadelphia designed the first four houses in the area. Toward the northern end of its holdings, the Land Company dammed Coquelin Run , a stream that crossed its land, to create the manmade Chevy Chase Lake . The body of water furnished water to the coal-fired generators that powered

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1472-526: The rest of his Calvert family, Charles had been raised a Catholic but was withdrawn from his Jesuit school when his father Benedict converted to Anglicanism , largely for political reasons. Henceforth father and son would worship within the Church of England, much to the disgust of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore , who upheld his Catholic faith, despite the political drawbacks, until his death in 1715. In 1688, eleven years before Charles Calvert (1699–1751)

1518-449: The restoration of the family's proprietorial title to Maryland but, before the king could rule on the petition, Benedict Calvert himself died, just two months after his father, passing on his title in turn to his son Charles. Charles Calvert soon found himself, aged just fifteen, in the fortunate position of having had his family's proprietorial title to Maryland restored by the king. In 1721 Charles came of age and, at 21, assumed control of

1564-595: The sale or rental of homes to "a Negro or one of the African race." Others prohibited sales or rentals to "any persons of the Semetic [ sic ] race"—i.e., Jews . By World War II, such restrictive language had largely disappeared from real estate transactions, and all were voided by the 1948 Supreme Court decision in Shelley v. Kraemer . In 1964, Arthur Krock wrote an article for The New York Times alleging that

1610-541: The same profits they once did. In May 1989, the Montgomery Players and the K-G Players decided to join forces in a business accord, since the majority of their theater talent were shared by the two companies, they decided to join forces in hopes of turning a profit, and the Montgomery Playhouse was born in the space in which the Montgomery Players were occupying. In December 1999, the Montgomery Playhouse

1656-520: The scale of his deception, Lord Baltimore reneged on the agreement, but in 1735 The Penns brought proceedings in the Court of Chancery in London to enforce compliance. Chancery proceedings were notoriously slow and a final verdict was not reached until 1750, when Lord Chancellor Hardwicke found in favour of the claims of the Pennsylvanians in every respect. Charles's error ultimately resulted in

1702-423: The streetcars of the Land Company's Rock Creek Railway . The streetcar soon became vital to the community; it connected workers to the city, and even ran errands for residents. The lake was also the centerpiece of the Land Company's Chevy Chase Lake trolley park , a venue for boating, swimming, and other activities meant to draw city dwellers to the new suburb. Similar considerations led the Land Company to build

1748-605: Was Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales between 1731 and 1747. In 1739 he sailed on his new yacht Augusta for Russia to represent the British royal family at the marriage of Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia to Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg . The union, designed to strengthen the relationships between the houses of Romanov and Habsburg, was celebrated in grand style. Francesco Algarotti ,

1794-706: Was Lord of the Admiralty from 1742 to 1744, and from 1747 to 1751 he was Surveyor-General of the Duchy of Cornwall . In addition, he was Cofferer of the Household to the Prince of Wales from 1747 to 1751. Calvert was able to sit in the House of Commons as a member of the Irish peerage . Irish peerages were often used as a way of creating peerages which did not grant a seat in the English House of Lords and so allowed

1840-405: Was Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham . Melusina was the daughter of George I of Great Britain and his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal . Whatever the truth of this, it seems likely that Benedict's mother was a person of some consequence. According to a letter of Benedict's daughter-in-law Rosalie Stier Calvert dated 10 June 1814, his mother had been

1886-577: Was a British nobleman and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland . He inherited the title to Maryland aged just fifteen, on the death of his father and grandfather, when the colony was restored by the British monarchy to the Calvert family's control, following its seizure in 1688. In 1721 Charles came of age and assumed personal control of Maryland, travelling there briefly in 1732. For most of his life, he remained in England, where he pursued an active career in politics, rising to become Lord of

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1932-645: Was born, the Calvert family had lost their title to the Province of Maryland , following the events of the Glorious Revolution in England. In 1689 the royal charter to the colony was withdrawn, leading to direct rule by the British Crown. In 1715, when Charles was fifteen, his grandfather Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore died, passing his title, and his claim to Maryland, to his son Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore , (1679–1715). Benedict Calvert immediately petitioned George I for

1978-629: Was forced to move from its home in Gaithersburg, Maryland to a temporary facility at the Shady Grove Middle School in Gaithersburg, Maryland . The final production at their facility, ironically, was Our Town . Eighteen months later, The Montgomery Playhouse made an accord with the Asbury Methodist Village to perform their main stage productions at their new facility, a 300-seat theater. Soon after that,

2024-636: Was known as the Kensington/Garret Players (K-G Players). In 1966 the group moved to a permanent residence at the Kensington Armory. When the State of Maryland closed down the Armory in 1974, the group moved to Quince Orchard Boulevard. In the ensuing years, the Montgomery Players and the K-G Players were both theaters whose attendance was in a slight decline. While sharing actors and technical personnel, they were not sharing in

2070-463: Was memorialized in " The Ballad of Chevy Chase ". The area known as Chevy Chase includes several entities in southern Montgomery County : It also includes the neighborhood of Chevy Chase in northwest Washington, D.C. The United States Postal Service also uses "Chevy Chase" for some postal addresses that lie outside these areas: the town of Somerset , the Village of Friendship Heights , and

2116-463: Was unimpressed, and his younger brother Cecil wrote to him that family opinion in England was appalled at Captain Calvert's behaviour, and "thinks him mad". Lord Baltimore himself wrote that Benedict should receive the full benefit of the tax. Unfortunately, Benedict's health was poor and he died of tuberculosis on 1 June 1732, while sailing back to England . He was succeeded in 1732 by Governor Samuel Ogle under whose rule Maryland became engaged in

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