Cleveland Park is a residential neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.
It is located at 38°56′11″N 77°3′58″W and bounded approximately by Rock Creek Park to the east, Wisconsin and Idaho Avenues to the west, Klingle and Woodley Roads to the south, and Rodman and Tilden Streets to the north. Its main commercial corridor lies along Connecticut Avenue NW, where the eponymous Cleveland Park station of the Washington Metro's Red Line can be found; another commercial corridor lies along Wisconsin Avenue. The neighborhood is known for its many late 19th century homes and the historic Art Deco Uptown Theater. It is also home to the William L. Slayton House and the Park and Shop, built in 1930 and one of the earliest strip malls.
The Broadmoor Apartments on Connecticut Avenue, designed by Joseph Abel in 1928, represent the eclecticism of that period
Yenching Palace, a historic Chinese restaurant where American and Soviet negotiators met in 1962 to seek a resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The space was occupied by a Walgreens after the restaurant closed. It was vacant as of 2021.
Connecticut Avenue viewed towards the north in Cleveland Park.
Cleveland Park Metro Station Entrance.
The Rock Creek Railway, which operated independently from 1890 to 1895, was one of the first electric streetcar companies in Washington, D.C., and the first to extend into Maryland.
Construction of the viaduct across Rock Creek, ca. 1891
Looking east from Connecticut Avenue NW towards the Calvert Street Bridge, ca. 1920
A streetcar runs through modern-day Cleveland Park, ca. 1903, near the site of the Uptown Theater
Connecticut Ave. north from Bradley Lane, ca. 1910