Harry Smith House (Riverdale Park, Maryland)

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The Harry Smith House is a Queen Anne-style frame dwelling at 4707 Oliver Street in Riverdale Park, Prince George's County, Maryland, located northeast of Washington, D.C. Built in 1890, it stands on one of the original streets platted in the 1889 railroad suburb subdivision of Riverdale Park. The house combines decorative detail characteristic of the Queen Anne style of the 1880s with the foursquare plan that became popular at the turn of the 20th century. It was one of the first dwellings built in the new suburb and served as an elaborate model home intended to stimulate lot sales in the development. The house remained in near-original condition and was the earliest and best-surviving of the original Riverdale Park houses at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.