1. COSCDA Sterling Achievement Award in Housing National Park Seminary Submitted by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development

2. National Park Seminary  Originally built as vacation retreat in 1880s as “Ye Forest Inn”  Converted to Women’s Finishing School (called National Park Seminary), which added whimsical architecture to campus. Later became a women’s college.  Converted to military hospital in WW II  Set for by Army for demolition, bought for $1 by “Save our Seminary” to redevelop as mixed income project.  DHCD financed 19 SRO housing units for the homeless operated by Catholic Charities  DHCD also financed 56 unit MF rental property for low- income households, as well as 10 market rate units (total project cost of $21,321,262 for all DHCD units).

3. National Park Seminary  Project also includes 90 new infill townhomes (all sold for between about $650,000 - $850,000) as well as 111 luxury condominiums (last units selling for between about $400,000 and $900,000).  Project also includes 13 single family homes, typically selling in excess of $1 million.  Total project cost of about $151 million (started in 2005, completed in 2009)  Project also includes 12 acres of parkland, and is in walking distance to subway.

4. National Park Seminary Historical Photos  Upper Left – Dancing around the Maypole  Lower Left – Theater (interior destroyed by arson)  Top - Caryatid

5. National Park Seminary Sample Interiors Before Rehabilitation

6. National Park Seminary “Architectural Follies” Before Rehabilitation  Dutch Windmill before (converted to single family home)  Japanese Pagoda (covered to community office)

7. National Park Seminary Before Rehabilitation  Top – Infill Flemish Style Townhouses next to older Flemish Building  Right – Italian Villa before (converted to condos)

8. National Park Seminary Rehabilitation  Top Left – Gothic Ballroom (exterior)  Bottom Left – English Tudor apartment building  Top – Spanish Mission Condominiums

9. National Park Seminary Low-Income Apartments  Upper Left – Sample Low- Income Apartment under construction  Lower Left – Sample floor plan of low-income unit  Top – Apartment Building undergoing rehabilitation

10. National Park Seminary Ballroom Before and After

11. National Park Seminary Sample After Pictures  Exterior of Gothic buildings (now condos)  Exterior of single- family home

12. National Park Seminary After