Riverdale Park, aussi connu sous le nom de Riverdale, est une petite ville semi-urbaine du comté de Prince George, dans le Maryland, aux États-Unis. Elle se trouve dans la banlieue de la capitale fédérale, Washington.
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Riverdale Park, formerly known and often referred to as Riverdale, is a semi-urban town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, a suburb in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The population was 7,351 as of the 2020 census.
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Riversdale, is a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 and 1807. Also known as Baltimore House, Calvert Mansion or Riversdale Mansion, it is located at 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale Park, Maryland, and is open to the public as a museum.
Once the manor house and centerpiece of a 739-acre slave plantation, Riversdale was built for Belgian émigré Henri Joseph Stier, Baron de Stier, who lived in the William Paca House in Annapolis, Maryland immediately prior to building Riversdale. Stier planned the house in 1801 to resemble his Belgian residence, the Chateau du Mick. Four years later, Stier returned to Belgium, leaving the unfinished Riversdale to be completed by his daughter, Rosalie Stier Calvert and her husband, George Calvert, the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, who was a natural son of The 5th Baron Baltimore. Rosalie and George Calvert's son, Charles Benedict Calvert, established the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, College Park, on part of the Riversdale property.
While its design has been attributed to William Thornton, this is not supported by available evidence on Thornton's career. The house is architecturally significant as a well-preserved five-part Federal mansion, and historically important for its association with the Calverts, an important Maryland family. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997.
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The Harry Smith House is a Queen Anne-style frame dwelling at 4707 Oliver Street in Riverdale Park, Prince George's County, Maryland, located northeast of Washington, D.C. Built in 1890, it stands on one of the original streets platted in the 1889 railroad suburb subdivision of Riverdale Park. The house combines decorative detail characteristic of the Queen Anne style of the 1880s with the foursquare plan that became popular at the turn of the 20th century. It was one of the first dwellings built in the new suburb and served as an elaborate model home intended to stimulate lot sales in the development. The house remained in near-original condition and was the earliest and best-surviving of the original Riverdale Park houses at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
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The Anacostia Tributary Trail System is a unified and signed system of stream valley trails joining trails along the Anacostia tributaries of Northwest Branch, Northeast Branch, Indian Creek and Paint Branch with a trail along the Anacostia River, set aside and maintained by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
ATTS is a part of the East Coast Greenway, a 3,000-mile-long system of trails connecting Maine to Florida and the American Discovery Trail, a trail system stretching from the Delaware coast to San Francisco. It is located within the Anacostia Trail Heritage Area.
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Riverdale Park Town Center station is a passenger rail station on the MARC Camden Line between Union Station in Washington, DC and Baltimore's Camden Station. The station is part of the Riverdale Park Historic District, which has been part of the National Register of Historic Places since 2002.