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Hyattsville

City of Hyattsville http://www.hyattsville.org

Council Member Ward 1 Marc Tartaro mtartaro@hyattsville.org
Council Member Ward 1 Christopher Currie ccurrie@hyattsville.org
Council Member Ward 2 Mark Matulef mmatulef@hyattsville.org
Council Member Ward 2 Scott Wythe swythe@hyattsville.org: President
Council Member Ward 3 Krista Atteberry kattaberry@hyattsville.org
Council Member Ward 3 Mary Elwood melwood@hyattsville.org
Council Member Ward 4 Paula Perry pjperry@hyattsville.org, Vice President
Council Member Ward 4 Carlos Lizane clizane@hyattsville.org
Council Member Ward 5 Ruth Ann Frazier rafrazier@hyattsville.org
Council Member Ward 5 Jon M. Lewis jmlewis@hyattsville.org

Hyattsville City Planning Committee
Hyattsville Community Development Corporation
Hyattsville Public Library http://www.prge.lib.md.us
Mayor Bill Gardiner bgardiner@hyattsville.org

Regional

Anacostia Trails Heritage Area http://www.anacostiatrails.org
College Park Aviation Museum http://www.collegeparkaviationmuseum.com
Historic Takoma Inc. http://www.historictakoma.org
Laurel Historic District Commission http://www.laurel.md.us/comm.htm#HISTORIC
Laurel Historical Society http://www.laurelhistory.org
Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission http://www.mncppc.org
*Gateway Arts District Community Development Plan
*Historic Preservation Commission
*West Hyattsville Metro Transit District Development Plan
Maryland State Archives http://www.mdsa.net
Mt. Rainier Community Preservation League
National Trust for Historic Preservation Library http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/ntl.html
Prince George's County Administration Offices http://www.goprincegeorgescounty.com
Prince George's County Council Member Will Campos wacampos@co.pg.md.us
Prince George's County Historical and Cultural Trust http://www.pgchct.org
*Friends of Preservation
*The Newell Post
Prince George's County Historical Society http://www.pghistory.org
*Marietta Prince George's County Parks http://www.pgparks.com
*Riverdale
Riverdale Park Preservation Association http://www.ci.riverdale-park.md.us/AboutRiverdalePark/TownGroups/Preservation.html

State

Main Street Maryland Program http://www.dhcd.state.md.us/mainstmd/index.asp
Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development http://www.dhcd.state.md.us
*Maryland Main Street Center Maryland Heritage Areas Authority http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/hb-1.html
Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net
*Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program
Preservation Maryland http://www.preservemd.org
State Delegate Anne Healey anne_healey@house.state.md.us
State Delegate Justin Ross justin_ross@house.state.md.us
State Delegate Tawanna Gaines tawanna_gaines@house.state.md.us
State Senator Paul Pinsky paul_pinsky@senate.state.md.us

National

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation http://www.achp.gov
Black Ink Archives http://www.blackinkarchives.com
Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov
*Maps and Geography Division
*Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress Folk Life Center http://www.loc.gov/folklife
National Archives and Records Administrtion http://www.archives.gov
National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers http://www.ncshpo.org
National Park Service (NPS) http://www.nps.gov
*American Battlefield Protection Program
*Archeology and Ethnography
*Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
*National Register of Historic Places
*Technical Preservation Services
National Trust for Historic Preservation http://www.nthp.org
Preservation Action http://www.preservationaction.org
Smithsonian Institution http://www.smithsonian.org
Society of Architectural Historians-Latrobe Chapter http://www.latrobechaptersah.org
Vernacular Architecture Forum http://www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org

Publications

Cultural History

Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr. The American Family Home, 1800-1960. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Cowans, Alan. The Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture 1890-1930. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.

Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Lynes, Russell. The Tastemakers: The Shaping of American Popular Taste. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980.

Weiss, Marc A. The Rise of Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981.

Hyattsville History

The Bicentennial and 90th Anniversary. Mayor and Counncil of Hyattsville, 1976.

Brigham, Arthur P. History of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Maryland: WSSC, 1988.

Celebrating Official Opening Rhode Island Avenue, Hyattsville, MD, Program. December 7, 1929.

Daughters of the American Revolution. Index to Registers of St. Matthews Parish, Hyattsville, Prince George's County, Maryland, 1834-1926. Hyattsville, MD: Toaping Castle Chapter, DAR, 1981.

Dougherty and Moore, Ltd. Hyattsville Revitalization Strategy. Gaithersburg, MD, March 1982.

Geary, Francis X. Fire Call-A History of the Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department . Laurel, MD: Niko, Inc., 1973.

Hershman, Robert R. and Edward T. Stafford. Growing with Washington: The Story of Our First Hundred Years. Washington, DC: Washington Gas Light Company, 1948.

Hotchkiss, Betty and Neil. St. Matthew;s Parish: 1811-1961. Prince George's County, MD: St. Matthew's Parish, 1961.

Hyattsville, Our Hometown, 1886-1986. Hyattsville, MD: City of Hyattsville, 1988.

I Believe in America: 90 Years of Community Growth and Development in the City of Hyattsville. Hyattsville, MD: Mayor and City Council of Hyattsville, 1976.

75 Years of Community Growth and Development in the City of Hyattsville. Hyattsville, MD, 1961.

Maps

Higginson, J.H. Map of Washington D.C. and Environs. circa 1860.

Hopkins, G.M. Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around Washington, including the County of Prince George, Maryland. Philadelphia, 1878.

Martennet, Simon J. Atlas of Prince George's Copunty, Maryland 1861. Philadelphia: T.S. Wagner, 1861.

Morrison, J.R.D. Morrison's Map of the Country About Washington. Circa 1884.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas. Hyattsville, 1906, 1911, 1922, 1933.

Nineteenth Century Houses

Comstock, William T. Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details: 734 Scale Drawings of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices and Other Elements. New York: Dover Publications, 1987.

Cook, Clarence. The House Beautiful: An Unabridged Reprint of the Classic Victorian Stylebook. 1995.

Moss, Roger W. Lighting for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproductions. New York: Preservation Press, 1989.

Nylander, Richard C. Wallpapers for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproduction Wallpapers. New York: Preservation Press, 1992.

Shaw Edward. The Modern Architect: A Classic Victorian Stylebook and Carpenter's Manual. New York: Dover Books, 1996.

Zingman-Leith, Elan abd Susan. Creating Authentic Victorian Rooms. New York: Elliott and Clark, Publishers, 1995.

Paint Colors

Moss, Roger W. A Century of Color: Exterior Decoration for American Buildings, 1820-1920. Watkins Glen, New York: American Life Foundation, 1981.

Moss, Robert W., editor. Paint in America. Washington, DC: The Barra Foundation, Inc., 1996.

Moss, Roger W. and Gail Winkler. Victorian Exterior Decoration: How to Paint Your Nineteenth-Century American House Historically. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992.

Regional History

Boucher, Jack E. Landmarks of Prince George's County. Baltimore: The Johns HopkinsUniversity Press, 1993.

Callcott, Margaret Law, editor. Mistresses of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Dills,, James D. The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, The Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Floyd, Bianca Patrice. Black History and Historic Sites in Prince George;s County. Maryland: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1983.

Labitut, Jean and Wheaton J. Lane. Highways in Our National Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950.

Perlman, Philip, compiled. Maryland Manual 1923: A Compilation of Legal and Historical Information Relating to the State of Maryland. Baltimore, MD: 20th Century Printing Company, 1923.

Savage, Beth L, Editor. African American Historic Places. New York: The Preserfation Press, 1994.

Virta, Alan. Prince George;s County-A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: The Downing Company/Publishers, 1998.

Traditions

Breathnach, Sarah Ban. Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrqations of Comfort and Joy. New York: Scribner/Simple Abundance Press, 2001.

Twentieth-Century Houses

Bruce, Alfred and Harold Sanbank. A History of Prefabrication. New York: Arno Press, 1992.

Emmit, Boris and John E. Jaeuck. Catalogues and CountersL A History of Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Chicago: n University of Chicago Press, 1950.

Gordon-Van Tine Co. 117 House Designs of the Twenties. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992.

Reiff, Daniel D. Houses From Books: Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738-1950. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. Small Houses of the Twenties: The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1991.

Stevenson, Katherine C. and H. Ward Jandl. Houses By Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company. New York: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1996.

Thornton, Rosemary. The Houses That Sears Built. Gentle Beam Publications, 2002.