<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><span><font size="3">This is a well know resource. </font></span></div><div><span><font size="3">The federal government purchased the property , much to the chagrin of the Towns citizens, to house </font>unnecessary<font size="3"> workers during WWII. </font></span></div><div><span><font size="3">The town's citizens were hoping the Federal government would not commandeer the property and the historic home could be salvaged. </font></span></div><div>Unfortunately<span><font size="3">, because of its proximity to ERCO the government took the property over and built a 550 unit prefab temporary housing project in 1942 out of asbestos cement
board. </font></span></div><div><span><font size="3">By 1943 it was already deteriorating and concurred a shanty town by town by Riverdale residents. </font></span></div><div>After WWII it basically was housing for married students at the University of Maryland.</div><div>the 1950's era of the housing site is a bit controversial.</div><div>The federal government closed the housing up in 1954. Part was developed as a central us mail facility and part as an army reserve location. the rest was sold at auction to Cafritz in 1959.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jonathan W. Ebbeler <jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> towntalk@riverdale-park.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:52 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [RP TownTalk] MacAlpine History<br> </font> </div> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1117248920WordSection1"><div class="yiv1117248920MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1117248920MsoNormal">All –</div><div class="yiv1117248920MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1117248920MsoNormal">I found this history that was written in 1934 concerning the MacAlpine Mansion. The author prepared it as part of his initiation into the Phi Mu engineering honorary fraternity. While not a trained historian (as far as I know), the author did derive much of the information from interviews with the surviving Calvert family:</div><div class="yiv1117248920MsoNormal">http://www.archive.org/download/TheHistoryAndConstructionOfMacAlpineAtCollegeParkMaryland/PhillipsJack-univarch-014831.pdf</div><div class="yiv1117248920MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1117248920MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-family: sans-serif; ">Jonathan W. Ebbeler | </span></b><b><span style="font-size:
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