Subject: Architecture page 2

Property face was on Baltimore Avenue and included several small cottages and a larger building. A note on the photo from contributor states "Housing for B&O Railroad Employees"

In 1935, Nancy Gross Tabbs built this house on Augusta Avenue (now Navahoe Street) for her daughter, Janine, and herself. Viola Gross, and Margret Gross Gray, Tabbs’ nieces, later inherited the home as it is pictured here in the 1950s. In 1989 a great-great niece of Tabbs purchased the home from her great-aunt’s estate.

Block 44 Lot 3, Project Parcel 19-3

Navahoe Street, site of community events and private functions

5400 Cleveland Ave. Block 45 Lot 6 Parcel 18-3 Paul & Delores Parker

Possibly 4827 Navahoe Street Mary E. Stewart, Samuel R., Earl & Raymond Conway

Between 1910 and 1918, the Guss family moved from St. Mary's County in Maryland to Lakeland by way of the District of Columbia. Shortly after they arrived, Cornelius and Carrie Guss bought the property from its white owner. They were one of the Roman Catholics in the community and raised their children in that faith.

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

4803 Navahoe

4702 Lakeland Rd Lot 10 Block 19, Urban Renewal Parcel 8 Block 23

Lakeland Road 5100 block

Located on the corner of Lakeland Road and 51st Avenue

4812 Lakeland-Sherman & Saxoline Campbell

Pierce Avenue

Ground ready for new development

Block 44, Lots 2 & 3 8121 54th Ave Gilbert Thomas

In 1970, Prince George’s County officials reported that only a few of Lakeland’s streets were paved, lighting was inadequate, and home values lagged behind those of neighboring white communities. The report failed to mention contributing influences, such as the disparity in economic prospects and the lack of financing opportunities for residential and commercial properties. African Americans were primarily dependent on unregulated private lenders; bank mortgages were rarely granted. Here are two homes on Lakeland Road circa 1968.

Navahoe Street

Once the City of College Park adopted the Urban Renewal plan in 1970, two thirds of the community's households--mostly in the eastern and western sections of Lakeland--had to vacate their houses. After families had moved out, several of Lakeland’s homes were burned as training exercises for the local fire department. Here is a photo of one such incident.

Located on Rhode Island Avenue

Miscellaneous Sheds - removable 4/25/74 Block 44, Lots 1,12,13,14 & 15

Edwards house twenty years after #16 1966 without car.

5001-5007 Lakeland Rd Parcel 15/8

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.

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

5402 Cleveland Ave Carl E. Cager, et al

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

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

Weygandt property

Located directly across from Lake Artemesia and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks, the Gray family home was for more than 60 years the site of many gatherings for family and friends. It hosted elementary school students in 1909 when the space in the schoolhouse became inadequate. From 1909 to 1917 a post office and rail stop operated from it as well. Today, Paint Branch Elementary stands on the property.

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.

5100 Pierce Av George and Rosie Gross

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.

Stage with dignitaries

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

Two seated on the porch of the Gray family home located on the corner of 54th Avenue and Pierce Avenue

Urban Renewal Parcel 8 Block 15 5001-5007 Lakeland Rd