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Mount Rainier Historic District
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Mount Rainer, Maryland, welcome sign with trolley, November 2005
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| Location: | Roughly bounded by Arundel St., 37th St., Bladensburg Rd. and Eastern Ave., Mount Rainier, Maryland |
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| Built: | 1900 |
| Architect: | Multiple |
| Architectural style: | Queen Anne, Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements |
| Governing body: | Local |
| NRHP Reference#: |
90001319 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | September 07, 1990 |
The Mount Rainier Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland, originally a streetcar suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C. The district has the varied and picturesque character, laid over a gently rolling, formerly rural landscape, developed ca. 1900 to 1940. The district contains more than 1,000 buildings, which are modestly scaled, detached, single-family, frame houses sited closely together with common setbacks. The district buildings consist primarily of single-family homes, with some small apartment buildings, the occasional duplex, and the single family residence that incorporates a small storefront, usually located at the corner of an intersection interspersed. With the exception of five churches and a bank building known to have been designed by local architects, the remainder of the district's buildings are vernacular in inspiration. Some homes contain Queen Anne detailing.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]
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