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COSCDA Sterling Achievement Award in
Housing
National Park Seminary
Submitted by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development
National Park Seminary Originally built as vacation retreat in 1880s as “Ye Forest
Inn” Converted to Women’s Finishing School (called National
Park Seminary), which added whimsical architecture to campus. Later became a women’s college.
Converted to military hospital in WW II Set for by Army for demolition, bought for $1 by “Save our
Seminary” to redevelop as mixed income project. DHCD financed 19 SRO housing units for the homeless
operated by Catholic Charities DHCD also financed 56 unit MF rental property for low-
income households, as well as 10 market rate units (total project cost of $21,321,262 for all DHCD units).
National Park Seminary Project also includes 90 new infill
townhomes (all sold for between about $650,000 - $850,000) as well as 111 luxury condominiums (last units selling for between about $400,000 and $900,000).
Project also includes 13 single family homes, typically selling in excess of $1 million.
Total project cost of about $151 million (started in 2005, completed in 2009)
Project also includes 12 acres of parkland, and is in walking distance to subway.
National Park SeminaryHistorical Photos
Upper Left – Dancing around the Maypole
Lower Left – Theater (interior destroyed by arson)
Top - Caryatid
National Park Seminary Sample Interiors Before
Rehabilitation
National Park Seminary“Architectural Follies” Before
Rehabilitation
Dutch Windmill before (converted to single family home)
Japanese Pagoda (covered to community office)
National Park Seminary Before Rehabilitation
Top – Infill Flemish Style Townhouses next to older Flemish Building
Right – Italian Villa before (converted to condos)
National Park Seminary Rehabilitation
Top Left – Gothic Ballroom (exterior)
Bottom Left – English Tudor apartment building
Top – Spanish Mission Condominiums
National Park SeminaryLow-Income Apartments
Upper Left – Sample Low-Income Apartment under construction
Lower Left – Sample floor plan of low-income unit
Top – Apartment Building undergoing rehabilitation
National Park Seminary Ballroom Before and After
National Park SeminarySample After Pictures
Exterior of Gothic buildings (now condos)
Exterior of single-family home
National Park Seminary After