Eldbrooke United Methodist Church
National Register of Historic Places

Eldbrooke United Methodist Church

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia County, District of Columbia
Listed
September 4, 2008
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
08000840

About this property

Eldbrooke United Methodist Church is a historic church building located at 4100 River Road NW in the Tenleytown neighborhood Washington, D.C. The first church on this site, called Mount Zion Methodist, was established in 1840, in the vicinity of Tennally Town, a farming village, approximately three miles north of Georgetown, on the Rockville Pike. The original structure may have been rebuilt after the Civil War. In 1899, the building was renovated and expanded, and the name was changed to Eldbrooke, after Aquila Eld and Philip Brooke, who were among the founders. The Spanish Colonial Revival building, designed by Howard Wright Cutler, was built in 1926. Descendants of the Eld family were still present in the 1960s. After church membership had declined thru the latter 1900s, responsibility for ministry was assigned to Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church in the 1990s, and ministry was discontinued in early 2000s. The property was purchased by The City Church in 2008. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places and District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2008. Media related to Eldbrooke United Methodist Church at Wikimedia Commons

Location

4100 River Rd.
Washington, D.C., District of Columbia County, District of Columbia
38.94922, -77.08098

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When was Eldbrooke United Methodist Church listed on the National Register?

Eldbrooke United Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 2008.

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Eldbrooke United Methodist Church is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Eldbrooke United Methodist Church is recorded as the industrial era.

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