National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024401B
(8-86)
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Continuation Sheet
CLEVELAND PARK HISTORIC DISTRICT
WASHINGTON D.C.
Section number 7 Page _A__
maintains its original integrity. It still sits on top of a hill surrounded
by a generous amount of land giving it a rural feeling reminiscent of the time
when this was open farmland. The acreage is greatly reduced from what it was
in the 18th-century having been sold off over the years especially in the
1890's when the Cleveland Park suburb was being developed. The house remained
in the Forrest family until 1917 when it was rented to Mr. and Mrs. Avery
Coonley of Chicago. In 1920 the Coonleys bought the property with
approximately ten acres of land. Mr. Coonley was a prominent educator and
philanthropist and had been one of Frank Lloyd Wright's early patrons.
In 1959 Mr. and Mrs. Waldron Faulkner (Mrs. Faulkner was the Coonleys
daughter who had inherited the property) sold Rosedale to the Prostestant
Episcopal Cathedral Foundation but retained three acres for their own personal
use. The brick National Cathedral School dormitories built behind the
Rosedale farmhouse were designed by Avery Faulkner in 1968 in a simple
functional style. Along 36th Street, Waldron Faulkner designed 3415 in 1936
for himself and his wife in a "Modern Style" with Art Deco and Greek
decorative references. He also designed the house next door at 3419 which has
the appearance of a "modern" cottage.
His son Winthrop Faulkner, also an architect, designed 3530 Ordway in
1963 and 3540 Ordway in 1968 in a "Modern Style" which emphasized the
architect's concern to satisfy the internal demands for space for the family's
activities. In 1977 the Rosedale property once again changed hands and was
acquired by Youth for Understanding to be used for its national headquarters.
At this time Winthrop Faulkner was able to acquire a little more land along
36th St. where he built three houses with identical exterior appearances and
individual custom designed interiors. In 1982 he won a design award from the
metropolitan chapter of the AIA for these three houses.
Twin Oaks; 3225 Woodley Road; 1888, Francis Richmond Alien
of the Alien & Kenway Firm in Boston, architect;
Colonial Revival Style;
A D.C. Landmark and
listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Twin Oaks is the only remaining example of a house designed to be a
summer home located in the Cleveland Park area. It is an early example of a
Colonial Revival house. Twin Oaks is an estate consisting of seventeen acres
of rolling lawn and wooded areas, a large frame summer house and several
smaller dwellings. The large frame summer home has a symmetrical appearance
with a strong central axis provided by the porte cochere recalling the 18th-
century Colonial Georgian houses in New England which were the source for many
of the summer houses being constructed in the 1880's and 1890's in New
England. To the west and south sides, a large wrap-around porch provides
extra living space and a remarkable view over the rolling lawn down the hill
to the wooded areas.
Hubbard originally purchased 50 acres of land for a summer enclave. His
son-in-law Charles Bell, president of American Security and Trust, and his
wife, Grace Hubbard, had their summer cottage next door on the property known