Polychrome Historic District

Polychrome Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Polychrome Historic District, April 2010
Location	9900 and 9904 Colesville Rd., 9919, 9923, and 9925 Sutherland Rd., Silver Spring, Maryland
Coordinates	39°1′5″N 77°0′57″W
Area	1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built	1934 (1934)
Architect	Earley, John Joseph; Kennedy, J.R.
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	96000900
Added to NRHP	August 29, 1996

The Polychrome Historic District is a national historic district in the Four Corners neighborhood 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.

External links

• Polychrome Historic District, Montgomery County, including photo in 2003, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Boundary Map of the Polychrome Historic District, Montgomery County, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-1077, "Polychrome House No. 1, 9900 Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29), Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD"