{"id":2911,"date":"2012-02-24T20:57:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:38:28","slug":"mid-century-architecture-gets-its-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2012\/02\/mid-century-architecture-gets-its-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Century Architecture Gets its Due"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest post by Scott Whipple<\/p>\n

The Washington Post\u2019s \u201cWhere We Live\u201d blog recently featured Washington area mid-century architecture (Washington\u2019s mid-century modern neighborhoods <\/a>| Washington\u2019s mid-century modern neighborhoods, part 2<\/a>), making mention of a number of Montgomery County\u2019s recent past resources — including the Rock Creek Woods, Hammond Wood, and Carderock Springs National Register historic districts.<\/p>\n

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Hammond Wood<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hammond Wood’s pedigree<\/p><\/div>\n

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Carderock Springs<\/p><\/div>\n

As Amanda Abrams writes in the first post, \u201cI\u2019ve found that once I look for them, I start seeing modernist communities everywhere.\u201d We expect to be seeing more mid-century resources, too. So we\u2019ve started the MontgomeryModern initiative<\/a> to explore our county\u2019s mid-century architectural history. We share the excitement about this architecture that Michael Shapiro mentions in his post, and we hope you will come along with us we discover MontgomeryModern.<\/p>\n

Montgomery Modern explores mid-century modern buildings and communities that reflect the optimistic spirit of the post-war era in Montgomery County, Maryland. From International Style office towers to Googie style stores and contemporary tract houses, Montgomery Modern celebrates the buildings, technology, and materials of the Atomic Age, from the late 1940s through the 1960s. A half century later, we now have perspective to appreciate these resources as a product of their time.
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Guest post by Scott Whipple<\/p>\n

The Washington Post\u2019s \u201cWhere We Live\u201d blog recently featured Washington area mid-century architecture (Washington\u2019s mid-century modern neighborhoods | Washington\u2019s mid-century modern neighborhoods, part 2), making mention of a number of Montgomery County\u2019s recent past resources — including the Rock Creek Woods, Hammond Wood, and Carderock Springs National Register historic districts.<\/p>\n

As Amanda Abrams writes in the first post, \u201cI\u2019ve found that once I look for them, I start seeing modernist communities everywhere.\u201d We expect to be seeing more mid-century resources, too. So we\u2019ve started the MontgomeryModern initiative to explore our county\u2019s mid-century architectural history. We share the excitement about this architecture that Michael Shapiro mentions in his post, and we hope you will come … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,299,5],"tags":[379,279],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-places","category-planning","tag-mid-century-modern","tag-montgomery-modern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11085,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/11085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}