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History · Langley Park

A history of Langley Park,
then and now

Postcards, papers and photographs of Langley Park from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.

8old images & papers
1historic places
4recent photos
From Langley Park’s archive · credits on each photo

The story

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"Langley Park" refers to the Langley Park estate established in 1923 by the McCormick-Goodhart family in the Chillum District of Prince George's County. The name McCormick-Goodhart represented the linking of one of Chicago's oldest families, that of Cyrus McCormick, with that of British barrister Frederick E. McCormick-Goodhart. Frederick's wife Henrietta (Nettie) was the daughter of Leander J. McCormick, a brother of Cyrus. They named the 540-acre (2.2 km2) estate "Langley Park" after the Goodharts' ancestral home in Kent, England. In 1924, they erected an 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2), 28-room Georgian Revival mansion, designed by architect George Oakley Totten Jr., at a cost of $100,000. It remains a community landmark at 8151 15th Ave. CASA of Maryland purchased the property in 2009, making the site its home base, and a US$31 million Multicultural Community Center is now open in th…

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Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1918Riggs MillLOC
1930s7 items · Historic American Buildings Survey Al…Commons
1940–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewRiggs Mill, 1918: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

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Nora RobertsNora RobertsSilver Spring · 2 miRian JohnsonRian JohnsonSilver Spring · 2 miFrances TiafoeFrances TiafoeHyattsville · 2 miRebecca SugarRebecca SugarSilver Spring · 2 miMichael EalyMichael EalySilver Spring · 2 miSteve FrancisSteve FrancisTakoma Park · 1 mi
By decade

Langley Park, decade by decade

1910s1 item
Riggs MillLOCRiggs Mill1918
1930s7 items
Historic American Buildings Survey Albert S. Burns, Photographer C. 1934-1935 - Adelphi Mill, Adelphi Mill Recreation C…CommonsHistoric American Buildings Survey Albert S. Burns, Photogr…1933Historic American Buildings Survey Albert S. Burns, Photographer c. 1934-35 RIGGS MILL - Adelphi Mill, Adelphi Mill Rec…CommonsHistoric American Buildings Survey Albert S. Burns, Photogr…1933Historic American Buildings Survey T. T. Waterman, Photographer 1934 STAIR DETAIL - Adelphi Mill, Adelphi Mill Recreati…CommonsHistoric American Buildings Survey T. T. Waterman, Photogra…1933Historic American Buildings Survey John O. Brostrup, Photographer April 30, 1936 12-00 M. DETAIL OF MILL-WHEEL. - Adelp…CommonsHistoric American Buildings Survey John O. Brostrup, Photog…1936Historic American Buildings Survey John O. Brostrup, Photographer April 30, 1936 12-30 P. M. VIEW FROM SOUTH - Adelphi …CommonsHistoric American Buildings Survey John O. Brostrup, Photog…1936Historic American Buildings Survey John O. Brostrup, Photographer April 30, 1936 12-40 P. M. VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST. - Ade…CommonsHistoric American Buildings Survey John O. Brostrup, Photog…1936Historic American Buildings Survey John O. Brostrup, Photographer. April 30, 1936 11-50 A.M. VIEW OF COTTAGE AND MILL F…CommonsHistoric American Buildings Survey John O. Brostrup, Photog…1936
1940s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today4 photos
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National Register of Historic Places

1 historic place in Langley Park

1 place in Langley Park is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

#159
In Marylandby listings · the typical town has 1
1place listed1 building
0National Historic LandmarksNone here yet
1historic building protectedcounting each building in a district
2008first listedLangley Park

Where they are

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Buildings

Architectural styles

From each listing’s National Archives record
Georgian Revival1

When they were listed

The Register began in 1966.
Langley ParkListed 2008Langley ParkGeorgian RevivalArchitecture
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · styles from the National Archives catalog · photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Riggs Mill (1918) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Takoma Park📜 University Park📜 Hyattsville📜 College Park

From Wikimedia Commons (11) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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