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North Cleveland Park 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, five single-family homes were for sale in North Cleveland Park, all of which were listed for under $1 million. Five were under contract with three under $1 million. In the third quarter of 2008, three homes sold including a house on Tilden for $2 million. In the first half of 2008, 14 single-family homes sold in North Cleveland Park. In 2007, there were 36 sales, while 18 homes sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $943,493. This compares to $917,901 and $850,778 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $973,397 in the first half of 2008, $929,803 in 2007, and $843,739 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
The number of condominiums and cooperatives that sold in the third quarter of 2008 totaled three,all under $400,000, with one under contract. There were no condos and coops for sale as of September 30, 2008. For the first half of 2008, 4 condos/coops sold, 18 for the year 2007, and 15 in 2006. The average sales price was $338,150 in the first half of 2008, $471,556 in 2007, and $338,150 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
Most people do not know where North Cleveland Park starts and Cleveland Park ends. The only clue is size. The residences in North Cleveland Park are smaller than those in its southern neighbor, but many still have the quaint summer cottage/bungalow look about them. Most were built after 1920 to accommodate the influx of scientists and other employees at the National Bureau of Standards. The houses represent mission and prairie style along with Colonials and Federal detached and semi-detached homes. A small number of homes have been constructed in the last few years, and several area homes have been enlarged. There are condominiums along Connecticut and Wisconsin Avenues. In 1917, the Standard Store Company, the first commercial property in the community, opened on Connecticut Avenue with local residents owning shares in the company. Cooperative interest still prevails in North Cleveland Park, but the shopping possibilities have greatly expanded. Today North Cleveland Park has several blocks of shopping on Connecticut Avenue near UDC and on Wisconsin Avenue. North Cleveland Park has other amenities as well. The Van Ness Metro station is located on Connecticut Avenue. The Friendship Post Office on Wisconsin Avenue is the largest in Northwest Washington. It is located just north of the middle and upper school of Sidwell Friends. North Cleveland Park is also the home of Hearst Elementary School, and the Sheridan School resides in the northern edge of the neighborhood. In addition to the campus of the University of the District of Columbia, the area near Van Ness has several embassies and consulates on International Drive. Melvin C. Hazen Park is located in the southeast corner of the neighborhood. The New Morning Farmers Market is held at 36th Street and Alton Place from June through December on Tuesday evenings and Saturdays. Much of North Cleveland Park was part of the patent obtained by George Beall of Georgetown in 1723 which was subsequently bought by Uriah Forrest, Benjamin Stoddert, and William Deakins to create Pretty Prospects (see history of Cleveland Park). In 1827, Joseph Nourse built the estate called Highlands for his son, Major Charles Nourse, as a wedding gift on land he purchased ten years earlier. The name Highland came from the bride's childhood home in Philadelphia. The four front columns were added to support the roof when a second floor was added in 1840. The Nourse family retained ownership until Admiral Cary Grayson, who was President Woodrow Wilson's physician, bought it in 1920, and for twenty years he bred race horses on the property. In 1911 Thomas Watson Sidwell and his wife Frances Haldeman bought a house north of Highlands and called it The Country Club. Sidwell was interested in expanding his Friends Select School (which was then located at 18th and I Streets), whose name was changed to Sidwell Friends School in 1934. The School rented the Highlands mansion in the 1940s and 50s. Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA, bought the house and sold it to the School in 1954. The funds from the sale of the school's property on the western side of Wisconsin Avenue which once belonged to the brewer Christian Heurich was used to purchase the mansion. On the eastern part of today's North Cleveland Park, approximately where the University of the District of Columbia is located was land once called the Vineyard. The 230 acres were amassed between 1816 and 1820 by John Adlum, a Revolutionary War veteran who served as a major in John Adams Provisional Army and eventually as a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania militia. The land he acquired in four portions from John Heugh, James Dunlop, and Joseph Nourse. Adlum cultivated 22 varieties of grapes and produced the Catawba variety still used in wine-making today. Many of his descendents, the Dents and Sterrett families, settled in the area. Springland Farm, owned by his descendants, was also located just off Connecticut Avenue. The estate was razed in 1911 to make room for the expanding National Bureau of Standards. The estate of Alfred P. Thom was also razed to accommodate the National Bureau of Standards complex. It was located at the northeast corner of Reno Road and Van Ness Street. W. D. Sterrett was one of the developers who in the 1920s and 1930s began to erect the smaller, single family homes built in close rows to house workers at the National Bureau of Standards. The Bureau, which was renamed the National Institute of Standards and Technology, moved to Maryland when it needed more room and the buildings were torn down in the 1960s. The University of the District of Columbia and the Intelsat building now occupy the space. The northwestern corner of North Cleveland Park, was part of the village called Tennallytown. (see history of American University Park). The oldest house in the Tenleytown area is at 4343 39th Street. The Rest, as it was called, was begun in 1801 by Charles Johnes for his sister Sarah Love. In 1926 the citizens of what is now North Cleveland Park formed the Devonshire Downs Citizens Association.
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