Hedges in Historic Greenbelt seem to be everywhere, and we have them because they’re part of the original utopian plan: yards that are open to each other, so that residents socialize together as a neighborhood. (Gardening was to be done … Read More
Greendale, Wisconsin is known to most Greenbelters as one of the two other “greenbelt” towns created during the New Deal era. (The other is Greenhills, just outside Cincinnati. I visited and reported on it here and here.) Like Greenbelt, … Read More
Roosevelt Underpass Garden is what I’ve been calling the garden on both sides of the sidewalk running through the underpass into Roosevelt Center. It sheds light on one of several features in Historic Greenbelt now considered icons of our unique … Read More
About Living New Deal Living New Deal (LND) is a fast-growing collection of information about New Deal projects using crowd-sourcing to document projects – already 174 in Maryland – and add more information to projects already listed. The mission of … Read More
Gardenbloggers, like me, are always on the look-out for new stories, and any connection to plants or gardening will do. So when I came across 1942 photos of Greenbelt’s original community gardens in the Library of Congress archives, I naturally … Read More
It’s thanks to my recent visit to the Norfolk Botanical Garden that the question in the title ever entered my mind. Like Greenbelt, it began as a New Deal project – in its case a $76,278 grant from the Works … Read More
A black-gum tree lived to an unusually old age in Greenbelt, Maryland, near Research Road and the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. Within a few years of 1720, this black gum sprouted in an old-growth forest, based on growth rings visible … Read More
[This is Part 2 of my Greenhills report. Part 1 covered public spaces, including a commercial strip.] Housing in Historic Greenhills From an architectural source: Each [residential] section has a mix of dwellings, one or more collector streets, a series … Read More
Welcome to Greenhills, Ohio Most Greenbelters know that there were two other New Deal “greenbelt towns,” named for the belt of forest surrounding each one. After Greenbelt opened in 1937, Greenhills, Ohio, near Cincinnati, opened a year later and then … Read More
While the British royalty is all over the news, maybe it’s time to take a look at the royal family member that our beloved county is named for – Prince George of Denmark (1653-1708), consort to Queen Anne of Great … Read More
by Sheila Maffay-Tuthill, Education and Volunteer Coordinator, Greenbelt Museum The utopian planned community of Greenbelt has had a complicated history with “man’s best friend.” When families were first moving into the town, it was decided that pets of any kind … Read More
by Sheila Maffay-Tuthill, Greenbelt Museum’s Education and Volunteer Coordinator. Greenbelt residents garden in their allotment plot. Library of Congress. In a small community surrounded by trees and bejeweled with a lake, a swimming pool, picnic areas, playgrounds, tennis courts, ball … Read More
A wonderful new event premiered last Saturday – a walking tour of Greenbelt Lake led by Greenbelt City Park Rangers. Attendees seemed unanimous in their praise of the event (especially our guides) and were glad to hear it’ll be repeated … Read More
I’m one of those retirees happily auditing courses at the University of Maryland – tuition-free. (Find out how here.) And in the spring of 2020 I was enrolled in the History of American Architecture course taught by Dr. Caroline Hickman,.a … Read More
We Greenbelters are rightly proud of our weekly newspaper, the famous Greenbelt News Review, which hasn’t missed an issue since its first on November 24, 1937. And now with the archiving of all 83 years of issues, I was curious … Read More
