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Polychrome Historic District

Polychrome Historic District
Polychrome Historic District Apr 10.JPG
Polychrome Historic District, April 2010
Polychrome Historic District is located in Maryland
Polychrome Historic District
Polychrome Historic District is located in the US
Polychrome Historic District
Location 9900 and 9904 Colesville Rd., 9919, 9923, and 9925 Sutherland Rd., Silver Spring, Maryland
Coordinates 39°1′5″N 77°0′57″W / 39.01806°N 77.01583°W / 39.01806; -77.01583Coordinates: 39°1′5″N 77°0′57″W / 39.01806°N 77.01583°W / 39.01806; -77.01583
Area 1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built 1934 (1934)
Architect Earley, John Joseph; Kennedy, J.R.
Architectural style Art Deco
NRHP Reference # 96000900
Added to NRHP August 29, 1996

The Polychrome Historic District is a national historic district in the Four Corners neighborhood in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. It recognizes a group of five houses built by John Joseph Earley in 1934 and 1935. Earley used precast concrete panels with brightly colored aggregate to produce the polychrome effect, with Art Deco details. The two-inch-thick panels were attached to a conventional wood frame. Earley was interested in the use of mass-production techniques to produce small, inexpensive houses, paralleling Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian house concepts.



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