Subject: Urban Renewalpage 3

Table of Contents (cont'd), with a list of Exhibits.

Urban Renewal document signing at College Park City Hall Council Chamber. Mayor Dervey Lomax signs as Congresswoman Gladys Noon Spellman and others look on. The date is believed to be May 27 There is another copy of this image in the collection donated by Thelma Lomax

Block 45 lots 1-5

On this lot for many years was an electric power substation. After its removal the Smith family relocated to a house moved to this site. Their new home had been owned by the Pitts family. That house had been located in the western area of Lakeland. Urban renewal records show there were other homes which were candidates for being moved. It is unclear why other houses were not moved.

Coal Shed and outhouse near Winnipeg Avenue and Albany Avenue

by Mark Hass

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Letter from Theodore Miazga attorney to Ed Finder, Director of Community Development, City of College Park, Requesting agreement with a continuance for trial as "consultant's recommendation to the City does not include the building of residences on the east side where... property is located."

Located on Rhode Island Avenue

Here is the central section of Lakeland Road around 1965. Embry A.M.E. Church is on the right and First Baptist Church is to the left, just out of view.

Advising of interest in purchasing city owned property they rent

Harry M. Braxton, his wife, Mary, their children, and his mother, Emma Harrison, shared a home in the Lakeland community. Harry Braxton was head of the local Human Relations Council, a racially integrated social change organization. He was also director of public relations for the Prince George’s County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Family members were deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement and all aspects of community life. One Sunday morning when Braxton’s wife and mother were alone at home while Braxton attended church services, two youths from a nearby white community fired forty-four bullets into the family’s home. (Photograph (c) 2008 Joanne M. Braxton)

Edwards house twenty years after #16 1966 without car.

5001-5007 Lakeland Rd Parcel 15/8

Parcel 19-7 Block 44 East 1/2 lot 6 Joseph A. & Eleanor M. Galvagna

The Dory family home. It was moved in the early 1900s from College Avenue in Old Town College Park to its current location on Navahoe Street. In the 1940s, they were the first family on the street to have a telephone, and they took calls for the whole neighborhood.

Telephone interview with Elwood Gross. Elwood Gross lived in Lakeland from 1933 to the 1970s. He served on the Lakeland Project Area Committee (PAC), which consisted of Lakeland residents who approved the earliest version of urban renewal plans. Those plans later changed and did not include many requests made by Lakelanders, namely the desire for single-family housing. Recorded via telephone with subject speaking from his home in South Carolina.

8121 54th Avenue Block 44 Lots 2 and 3 Gilbert Thomas

5402 Cleveland Ave Carl E. Cager, et al

Groundbreaking for Spellman House apartments part of urban renewal redevelopment

4800 Lakeland Rd West 69 ft. of Lot 10 in Block 12 Harold W. & Julia M. Pitts

5400 Cleveland Ave Block 45, Lot 6 Project Parcel 18-3

with amendments to minutes for February 6, 13 and 20.

Requesting appraisal for Lots 1,2,3 & 4 Block 43 and West 10 feet of Lot 99, Block 12. Berwyn Heights

Leonard Smith and Mamie McCorkle 8200 Rhode Island Avenue Pride of Bladensburg Lodge #514 I.B.P.O.E.W.

Weygandt property

Contains history of community and zoning with conclusions about issues and causes Page 1 of 19 MNCPPC Technical Staff Report and Amended Technical Staff Report Application Nos A-8547, A-9308, A-9308, A-9309, A-9310 & A-9311 Planning Area 66

Weygandt property

"Looking Southeast toward Navahoe Street from 8000 block of 54th Ave" Note attached is not correct. View was from Lakeland Road. The rail crossing was not visible from Navahoe St.

This map shows notations on owners of properties

8104 and 8106 48th Avenue Block 19 E. 87.1 of Lot 1 Project Parcel 23-1

With the limited access African Americans had to public spaces until the 1960s, this building on western Navahoe Street was forced to serve a multitude of functions. It was designated “Lakeland’s Hall” because it served as an informal community center as well as a place for public meetings, dances, wedding receptions, and church services. On Saturday, it became a movie theater. The building is shown here circa 1965. This hall replaced an earlier structure that was located in the central section of the community.

Section D: Project Proposals. Statement of Special Conditions. Statement of Proposals and Redevelopers' Obligations.

Looking East

J. Chesley Mack, sometimes referred to as the unofficial mayor of Lakeland, operated Mack’s Market on Rhode Island Avenue. It was a general store with an ice cream counter and billiard parlor on the main floor, and rental apartments on the second floor. Mack also worked as a chef at the University of Maryland and served as Lakeland’s City Council representative from 1945 until 1957.

5415 Detroit Ave Block 44 Lots 1, 12, 13,14, 15 Earl & Velma Weygandt & Carter Weygandt Eng. Inc.

Urban Renewal Parcel 8 Block 15 5001-5007 Lakeland Rd

Asked that he take back the check and send funds directly to Robinson Pipe and remit it to Attorney Rosen.

Little New Zion Fire Baptized Holiness Church of the Americas building was erected as a Rosenwald school, Lakeland Elementary School. In 1950 when high school classes in Lakeland were transferred to Fairmont Heights High the younger grades moved from this building to the old high school on 54th Avenue.