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Massachusetts Avenue Parking Shops
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Massachusetts Avenue Parking Shops in 2008
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Location	4841-4861 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, District of Columbia
Coordinates	38°56′45″N 77°05′45″W / 38.94595°N 77.09591°W / 38.94595; -77.09591
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1936
Architect	E. Burton Corning
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	03000670
Added to NRHP	July 25, 2003

The Massachusetts Parking Shops is a historical neighborhood shopping area built in 1936, among the first developments to integrate the automobile and shopping with off-street parking. It was developed in the modern Colonial Revival style by C. H. Hillegeist following the designs of E. Burton Corning. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Among the first stores in the small complex were a Sanitary Food Store and an A & P Grocery, a pharmacy, Homewood Hardware, Knife & Fork Delicatessen, Pat-a-Cake Bake Shop, Homewood Beauty Shop, Palace Laundry and a Gulf Oil filling station.

National planning publications used the Massachusetts Avenue Parking Shops as a model and small commercial postwar shopping centers were influenced by the style.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in western Washington, D.C.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Antoinette Lee and Kim Williams, 1989-2003, National Register of Historic Places Nomination

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• Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• Motor vehicle buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
• Colonial Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.
• Commercial buildings completed in 1936
• Washington, D.C., Registered Historic Place stubs