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REAL ESTATE

     In 2011, 8 single-family homes sold in Woodley Park for an average sale price of $1,436,938. The average list price was $1,533,750. This represents no change in the number of sales and a 24% increase in the average sale price from 2010. Homes were on the market in 2011 for an average of 50 days.

     Listed below are the number of sales of single-family homes by price range for the past six years.

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    Woodley Park is a combination of the styles of luxury homes in the adjoining neighborhoods of Massachusetts Avenue Heights, Cleveland Park, and Garfield. It has townhouses like Garfield, but Woodley Park's range from Tudor-styled to stucco and stone to Queen Anne. It also has detached homes from shuttered brick Colonials to shingle styles with front porches.

HIGHLIGHTS

     Outstanding views of the National Cathedral belong to many of the homes in Woodley Park. Of all the neighborhoods that were part of the property bought for development by Thomas Waggaman and John Sherman, Woodley is the only one that is landlocked; that is, it is the only neighborhood not bordering on a main avenue. The result is less through traffic disturbing residents with the walking distance to amenities on Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Connecticut Avenues. Maret School, as noted, resides in Woodley. A farmers market is held at the All Souls Episcopal Church on Saturdays from May through December.

HISTORY

      Today's neighborhood of Woodley Park was part of the patent obtained by George Beall of Georgetown in 1723 which was subsequently bought by Uriah Forrest, Benjamin Stoddert, and William Deakins, Jr. to create Pretty Prospects (see history of Cleveland Park). In 1800, one of the first estates built when Pretty Prospects was subdivided was Woodley, a Georgian manor on 18 acres of land. It was owned by Philip Barton Key, the uncle of Francis Scott Key and the brother-in-law of Uriah Forrest. It was said to be the summer home of four presidents -- Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, James Buchanan, and Grover Cleveland. Philip Key also owned the land where the Twin Oaks estate was to be built approximately 80 years later. The Maret School purchased the property in 1950. The neighborhood of Woodley Park was also part of the property belonging to Thomas Waggaman which was sold off to other developers when the Cleveland Park financier went bankrupt in 1905. Clarke Waggaman, his son, built his own home in the area and several townhouses. High-profile DC real estate investors such as Harry Wardman, Kennedy and Davis, and Middaugh and Shannon purchased land during the building boom between 1905 and 1930 and began subdividing. 

ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS

NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARIES

NEIGHBORHOOD LINKS

Woodley Park Community Association
Woodley Park Business and Services
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Map of Woodley Park

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