One of my favorite places in Montgomery County is
National Park Seminary. Strangely enough, given its name, NPS has never actually been a seminary. It started as a resort in the late 1800s, became a girls' finishing school, and later an outpost of Walter Reed Hospital. It has beautiful, if quirky architecture with a mixture of styles (An auditorium with Greek columns, some buildings that look like they belong in Dublin, and a pagoda).
Over time the maintenance of the property declined.
NPS is in the process of being redeveloped, but as these pictures show, it is a work in progress. In fact, the private property that has been developed next to the it provides an interesting contrast to the quirky, Faulkner-esque state of decline of some NPS buildings.
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