May 2008
by Jerry McCoy
Silver Spring in the early 1900s saw the construction of several private dwellings fronting the east side of Georgia Avenue, originally named the 7th Street Pike (or Turnpike) and later Brookville Pike (full name Washington & Brookville Turnpike). One of these homes was an American four-square house constructed in 1909 by twenty-one year old John Joseph Dolan for himself, his wife Geneva, and their daughter Helen (who would be born the following year). Dolan, a plasterer by profession who had moved to Silver Spring only the year before, went on to work as a builder, contractor, and a director of the Silver Spring National Bank.
by Jerry McCoy
Silver Spring in the early 1900s saw the construction of several private dwellings fronting the east side of Georgia Avenue, originally named the 7th Street Pike (or Turnpike) and later Brookville Pike (full name Washington & Brookville Turnpike). One of these homes was an American four-square house constructed in 1909 by twenty-one year old John Joseph Dolan for himself, his wife Geneva, and their daughter Helen (who would be born the following year). Dolan, a plasterer by profession who had moved to Silver Spring only the year before, went on to work as a builder, contractor, and a director of the Silver Spring National Bank.
John and Geneva Dolan pose circa 1925 next to their relocated house that was moved to 918 Thayer Ave. The house sat on property that today borders the east side of Mayor Lane and where is located 954-56-58 Thayer Ave. Photo courtesy Helen Dolan Sherbert.
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