Colorful Victorian home in Takoma Park, Maryland, an old "streetcar suburb" on the northern boundary with the District of Columbia, between 1980 and 2006

ID: 1239 ~ Source: Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011633692/. (Accessed September 15, 2016.) ~ Date: [Between 1980 and 2006]

This file appears in: Takoma Park Historic District: Spanning three jurisdictions, the Takoma Park Historic District was DC's first commuter suburb.

Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Colorful Victorian home in Takoma Park, Maryland, an old "streetcar suburb" on the northern boundary with the District of Columbia.

This file appears in: Takoma Park Historic District: Spanning three jurisdictions, the Takoma Park Historic District was DC's first commuter suburb.

Takoma Park Historic District: Spanning three jurisdictions, the Takoma Park Historic District was DC's first commuter suburb.

By The DC Historic Sites team

The area now designated as the Takoma Park Historic District served as the first commuter suburb in the area and was originally located on approximately 100 acres of land around the B&O Railroad…