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Chevy Chase If you have questions about the following data or want more information, contact us at 202-965-3715. If you would like to be included in periodic e-mail updates on this or other neighborhoods, send your name and e-mail address to info@hananhomes.com. As of September 30, 2008, 24 single-family homes were for sale in Chevy Chase, eight of which were listed for over $1 million. There were 20 homes under contract with five listed for over $1 million and one over $2 million. In the third quarter of 2008, 30 homes sold; six sold for over $1 million. In the first half of 2008, 97 single-family homes sold in Chevy Chase. In 2007, there were 193 sales, while 190 homes sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $960,525. This compares to $926,913 and $883,352 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $974,714 in the first half of 2008, $926,355 in 2007, and $885,685 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
Chevy Chase is so large and diverse that there is something available in the housing market for everyone. The Chevy Chase Land Company, trying to avoid an urban profiled neighborhood, sought home designs that included wide verandas, sleeping porches, patterned shingles and half timbers, decorative cornices, and a variety of designs in architecture and rooflines. The majority of these houses remain. The land company wanted to keep each home as individual as its owners, and the houses reflect turn of the century and early 20th Century styles which included the Shingle, Colonial Revival, Tudor, French Eclectic, Spanish Eclectic, Mission, Neoclassical, Italian Renaissance, Prairie, and Craftsman styles. There is also a mix of sizes represented in the original Chevy Chase. Barnaby Woods homes are largely detached Colonials constructed around 1950. Friendship Heights and Tenleytown have more of an urban feel with semi-detached, rowhouses, and condominiums and apartments mixed in with single family homes. Most condominiums are located close to Metro stations and lie close to the Wisconsin and Connecticut Avenue corridors. One of the latest additions to the Chevy Chase housing market is the condominium complex above the Container Store/Best Buy complex. Washingtonian Magazine named Chevy Chase as one of the top neighborhoods for families in 2005. It is the largest NW community, encompassing the land owned by the Chevy Chase Land Company along with Barnaby Woods, Tenleytown, and Friendship Heights. In its original planning, the Chevy Chase Land Company restricted commercial development to a small shopping area south of Chevy Chase Circle on the west side of Connecticut Avenue and commercial development is still strictly controlled. With the inclusion of nonrestricted communities into today's neighborhoods that make up Chevy Chase, several large shopping areas have emerged, in particular Mazza Gallerie and Chevy Chase Pavillion on the borders of Maryland on Wisconsin Avenue and their surrounding areas in both DC and Maryland. Both Wisconsin and Connecticut Avenues are lined with shopping. The immensity of the shopping possibilities does not preclude the neighborhood from having a farmers market which is held on Saturdays from May through November at Broad Branch and Northamptom Streets In Chevy Chase are Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, Deal Junior High School, and Lafayette Elementary School. Blessed Sacrament parochial school and St. John's College High School are located in upper Chevy Chase. Two preschools in the neighborhood are Montessori School of Washington and KinderHaus of Chevy Chase. The Chevy Chase Community Center just below Chevy Chase Circle provides various services to the neighborhood including a regional library nearby and tennis courts. Lafayette Park has recently been renovated with a new tot lot, a gazebo, and soccer fields thanks to the local community. There is a swimming pool at Upshur Recreation Center. Parks include Rock Creek Park to the east and Fort Reno Park near the southern border of Chevy Chase. Transportation is plentiful in Chevy Chase with bus lines traveling up and down Wisconsin and Connecticut Avenues many times an hour. The Friendship Heights Metro station covers northern Chevy Chase, while Tenleytown station is to the south. In 1713, Lord Baltimore patented more than 3,000 acres to Thomas Addison and James Stoddert. They divided the land in half, and Stoddert claimed the northern half. Lord Baltimore in 1725 sold Colonel Joseph Belt a tract of land in Maryland that adjoined Stoddert's property and named it in honor of hunting grounds on the border of Scotland and England called Cheivy Chace. Ninety years later, Assistant Postmaster General Abe Bradley bought Belt's land and built a farmhouse. In 1890, a group of land speculators known as the "California Syndicate" purchased the 1,700 acre farm. The syndicate consisted of three powerful men at the time, Senator William Stewart, Francis Newlands, and retired Army colonel George August Armes. They subdivided the land into building lots for upscale homes and called it Chevy Chase. With the formation of the Chevy Chase Land Company and capital stock of one million dollars, with financing to construct five additional miles to Connecticut Avenue beyond Calvert Street, with the creation of an electric railway line at the cost of $1.5 million, and with plans for amenities such as churches, schools and clubs to fill residences needs, Chevy Chase as a DC suburb was begun. One of the initial purchases by Francis Newlands was 305 acres which straddled the DC and Maryland borders. This parcel was to become Chevy Chase. At the expense of the Chevy Chase Land Company, Connecticut Avenue was expanded including the construction of trestle bridges over Rock Creek at Calvert and Klingle Streets. Home building began first with Chevy Chase Village in Maryland. The land company hired several well-known architects including Lindley Johnson of Philadelphia, landscape architect Nathan Barrett of New York, and local architect Leon E. Dessez, who built the current vice presidential residence. Sales of houses were slow at first, particularly after the panic of 1893 and did not pick up until after World War I. The electric railroad service ended in 1935, and the bridges were replaced. The Chevy Chase Land Company still exists today. Included in today's Chevy Chase neighborhood is Tenleytown, which is the second-oldest community in Washington, named after the Tennally family who established a local tavern around 1790 at the crossroad of today's Wisconsin Avenue and River Road (see history of American University Park). During the Civil War a fort was built on the eastern edge of Tenleytown. Fort Pennsylvania was the largest fort protecting the city. Its name was changed to Fort Reno to recognize Union Major General Jesse Lee Reno. After the war, the Dyer family, the original owners of the fort site, subdivided the land and sold lots. Many newly freed slaves settled at Fort Reno. From 1872 until 1906 the area was known as Reno City. By the turn of the century, the neighborhood was largely a middle-class enclave. Citizens groups worked for the demolition of the dilapidated Fort Reno and houses were taken by eminent domain for a water reservoir and tower in 1928 and 1929, for Alice Deal Junior High School in 1931 and for Woodrow Wilson High School in 1935.
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