Roosevelt Center
Greenbelt, United States
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Roosevelt Center stands as the commercial hub of Greenbelt, Maryland, a New Deal-era planned community established in 1937. Designed by architects Reginald Jeffrey Wadsworth and Douglas Ellington, the strip mall exemplifies the modernist aspirations of the period, blending Streamline Moderne, Art Deco, International Style, and Bauhaus principles into a unified composition. Built of brick and concrete, the center reflects the forward-looking aesthetic that characterized Depression-era federal planning initiatives. Today it is recognized as a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places, preserving a rare example of coordinated commercial design from the New Deal era.
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- Built
- Type
- strip mall
- Materials
- brick, concrete
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places contributing property
- Place
- Greenbelt, United States
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