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The O’Dea House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the houses built in 1888 by the Charlton Heights Improvement Company to stimulate the development of the new subdivision.

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Beginning in the 1870s, the area northeast of Washington, D.C. was the scene of active and continuous development as the city’s population grew and railroad suburbs such as Berwyn Heights, originally covered as Charlton Heights, gradually grew and expanded around it.