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Preservation Month: Parkbelt Homes
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
  • May 25, 2018
  • 1 min

Preservation Month: Parkbelt Homes

For our last post for Preservation Month, let's take a look at Parkbelt Homes! In 1938, General Houses of Chicago built 10 experimental streamlined houses here in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Parkbelt Houses in Greenbelt were composed of concrete slabs, steel frames and prefab panels. These modern homes were considered cutting edge at the time. General Houses exhibited an almost identical model to the #Greenbelt Parkbelt Homes in the Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition at the 1933 Chica
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Preservation Month: Greenbelt's Housing
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
  • May 5, 2018
  • 1 min

Preservation Month: Greenbelt's Housing

The month of May is Historic Preservation Month! Let's talk about the types of homes in historic #Greenbelt, Maryland! The original 1937 houses and apartment buildings remain. Influenced by Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities, they were grouped aesthetically with courts to catch prevailing breezes. There were four types of houses in Greenbelt: Cinder block, Brick, Defense and Parkbelt. Cinder block houses (our Historic House is one) are 44% of the existing original 1937 houses. T
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Museum Week: Kids
Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
  • Apr 28, 2018
  • 1 min

Museum Week: Kids

The Greenbelt Museum Historic House is GREAT for kids! We're actually hands on! No ropes! Whether it is dressing up, doing activities like a 1930s family or enjoying the house itself, we are seriously kid-friendly fun. Come see for yourself! #maryland #pgcounty #tourism #retro #princegeorgescounty #house #housemuseum #museum #historicpreservation #artdeco #Modernism #kids #NewDeal #history #community #1930s
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Historic House

 

10B Crescent Rd.

Greenbelt, MD 20770

Admission $5 or under

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Tickets available via Eventbrite

Exhibition Gallery

 

Lenore Thomas Straus Exhibit

Greenbelt Community Center

15 Crescent Rd. 

Greenbelt, MD 20770

Open M-Sat 9am-10pm, 

Sundays 10am-7pm

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The strength of Greenbelt is diverse people living together in a spirit of cooperation. We celebrate all people. By sharing together all are enriched. We strive to be a respectful, welcoming community that is open, accessible, safe and fair.

Greenbelt Museum Office


15 Crescent Road

Greenbelt, Maryland 20770

301-507-6582 

info@greenbeltmuseum.org

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