The Sumner – 3600 Albemarle Road

Cleveland Park
Washington, DC
Single-Family Development

Project Architect: Carina Lopez
Completed: Q3 2015

Highlights

Murillo Malnati Homes acquired a 19,600 SF lot on the corner of Albemarle and 36^th Street in Cleveland Park and subdivided it into three single-family lots.  The property had been abandoned for many years and was owned by a family trust when MMg acquired it for development.

Once subdivided, each lot and corresponding new home was named after three iconic architects/designers who influenced the American Craftsman architectural movement in the early 20^th century.  The Sumner is the larger of the three homes and it features approximately 5,820 square feet of livable space.

The Sumner includes home theatre/au pair suite on the ground level, a living room/dining room/great room/kitchen combination on the main floor, and five (5) bedrooms and five and a half (5.5) bathrooms as well as a 2-car garage. The Sumner also features an open space design, luxury eat-in kitchens with adjacent family room, state-of-the-art audiovisual components, and new high-quality fixtures and finishes.

Neighborhood

Cleveland Park is a residential neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It is bounded approximately by Rock Creek Park to the east, Wisconsin and Idaho Avenues to the west, Klingle and Woodley Roads to the south, and Rodman and Tilden Streets to the north. Its main commercial corridor lies along Connecticut Avenue, NW, where the eponymous Cleveland Park station of the Washington Metro’s Red Line can be found; another commercial corridor lies along Wisconsin Avenue.

The neighborhood acquired its name after 1886, when President Grover Cleveland purchased a stone farmhouse directly opposite Rosedale and remodeled it into a Queen Anne style summer estate called Oak View or Oak Hill. When Cleveland lost his bid for re-election in 1888, the property was sold, and the Oak View subdivision was platted in 1890.

While the first subdivisions were made in response to the extension of the Georgetown and Tenleytown electric streetcar line along Wisconsin Avenue, the success of the neighborhood was the result of the Rock Creek Railway, built on Connecticut Avenue in 1892.  Once Cleveland Park was connected to downtown Washington, the neighborhood’s second phase of development, as a “streetcar suburb” began.

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