
An eighty-acre suburban development laid out in 1917 on family property by Juliette Gordon Low and her brothers and constructed through 1950, Gordonston is distinguished by its City Beautiful radial plan centered on Pierpont Circle. On a smaller scale, the layout resembles features of the District of Columbia’s plan, where Langdon was in charge of the city’s park system. Henry, Atkinson, and Kinzie avenues—also named after members the Gordon family—feature borders of live oaks and landscaped medians. Juliette Gordon Low Park is entered through gates flanked by panels designed by their namesake on Edgewood Road. The earliest houses were Craftsman bungalows set on the Thunderbolt streetcar line on Kinzie Avenue, with grander examples built just south on Gordonston Avenue. Large revival-styled houses followed in the 1930s, and more than fifty early ranch houses with carports or garages to accommodate automobiles were added between 1945 and 1950.