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Polychrome Historic District
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Polychrome Historic District, April 2010
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| Location: | Silver Spring, Maryland |
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| Built: | 1934 |
| Architect: | Earley,John Joseph; Kennedy,J.R. |
| Architectural style: | Art Deco |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 96000900 |
| Added to NRHP: | August 29, 1996[1] |
The Polychrome Historic District is a national historic district in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. It recognizes a group of five houses built by John Joseph Earley in 1934 and 1935. Earley used precast concrete panels with brightly-colored aggregate to produce the polychrome effect, with Art Deco details. The two-inch-thick panels were attached to a conventional wood frame. Earley was interested in the use of mass-production techniques to produce small, inexpensive houses, paralleling Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian house concepts.[2]
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