Subject: Pre urban renewal landscapepage 3

Gas station on Baltimore Avenue at Lakeland Road

In the 1940s, Stewart’s Tavern opened in Nellie Stewart’s home on western Navahoe Street. In the 1950s, her son Henry Conway, a brick mason, and some of his friends built a separate structure next door for the establishment. They renamed it Four Brothers Tavern. When the business was sold to Leonard Smith in the mid-1960s, it became known as Lakeland Tavern. The building was razed in the 1970s, not long after this photograph was taken, to make way for Lakeland’s federally funded urban renewal project.

5402 Cleveland Ave Block 45 Lot 7 Carl Cager, et al.

4903 Navahoe St Block 12 Lot 3 Mary E. Stewart, Samuel R, Earl and Raymond Conway Project Parcel 24-3

In Lakeland

This motel had its front along Baltimore Avenue and was part of the Lakeland subdivision. It was not part of the Lakeland community as for much of its history the establishment did not serve African Americans

8111 54th Avenue Walter and Mildred Lassick Project Parcel 19-4 Block 44 Lot 4

Block 45 Lot 7 5402 Cleveland Ave Carl Cager, et al.

Block Lot 1,12, 13, 14 and 15 Block 44 Carter-Weygandt Engineering inc. 54th & Detroit Ave

8121 54th Avenue Block 44 Lots 2 and 3

4908 Navahoe St Grace & Vardell Nesbitt Urban Renewal Parcel 20-5 Block 16 w45'. Lot 6

Leon & Marionette T. Kelly 55th Ave Block 44 Lots 7,8,9,10 & 11

George and Jeanette Brooks built this house in 1955 on Lakeland Road. It was a new and modern home for a growing family. They lived here for only about twenty years, as the house fell victim in the late 1970s to the urban renewal project in the community.

The intersection of Rhode Island Avenue, Lakeland Road, and Navahoe Street was the hub of Lakeland. Electric streetcars connected the community with the District of Columbia from 1895 until 1962. Mack’s Market, Black’s Store, the Elks Home, Lakeland Hall, and Miss Waller’s Beauty parlor were located near the streetcar stop. Black’s Store, shown here circa 1969, was owned by Charles Black. It had four apartments, a dry cleaners, and a beauty parlor, along with a store that sold groceries and snacks. With a lunch counter and juke box, the establishment became a popular place for teens to gather, eat, dance, and enjoy being together.

Near Melbourne St Original image was a slide in the City of College Park collection

4704 Lakeland Rd Block 19 w 50" of lot 11 Urban Renewal Parcel 23-9 J. Victor Dickey

5108 Pierce Avenue

Edwards house twenty years after #16 1966 without car.

Merrill & Hazel V. Thomas 4902 Lakeland Road East 44.5 ft of East 80 Ft of Lot 14 in Block 12 Urban Renewal Parcel 21 in Block 24

Western Navahoe Street

8005 48th Ave.-Manton L. & Dalphine A. Chapman

4808 Lakeland Rd, Floyd & Azalian Ross Block 12 Lot 12. Project Parcel 24-7

8111 54th Ave Walter & Mildred Lassick Project Parcel 19-4 Block 44 Lot 4

Believed to be 5100 block of Pierce Avenue looking west.

Flooding after Hurricane Eloise 26 September 1975. 48th Avenue and Navahoe Street looking west toward US Route One

5017 Lakeland Rd Thelma Fulcher

School yard with basketball players

4904 Navahoe Street Thomas and Elsie Moody

Lakeland Rd

Demolition Contract #4

4908 Navahoe Street Grace & Vardell C. Nesbitt Block 16 E. 45' of lot 7 & 7 &E 10' of lot 6 Project Parcel 20-5

Pierce Avenue

Frontage on Baltimore Ave

8121 54th Ave Gilbert Thomas Lot 2, Block 44, Parcel 19-3