I recently posted about the Alcoa Care-free Home by Charles Goodman that is is for sale in Miami. The listing has no real images of the house, making clear that the property is being marketing for the land. Modern Capital readers who used to live in Hollin Hills and now live in Miami stopped by [...]

Only about two dozen of  Charles Goodman’s Alcoa Care-free Homes were built around the country. In the D.C. area there, at least two were built and still standing: one in Hollin Hills and one near Richmond (pictured above.) I just read that nother one may have been built in Alexandria. Does anyone know about it? [...]

This 1951 mid-century modern by Charles Goodman is located in Wheatoncrest, which includes 27 homes designed by Goodman for developers Paul Berman and Paul Hammond. Berman and Hammond originally planned to build 250 homes but the land they purchased–unlike the land used for Hollin Hills–was already cleared of trees and the homes did not sell well. They eventually sold [...]

If you are looking to rent a mid-century modern by Charles Goodman, this listing is available in Rock Creek Woods in Silver Spring for $2,100 per month. The two-level, 4 bedroom/3 bath home is located in the National Register of Historic Places-designated neighborhood. The 76-home community was was designed by Goodman and built by Herschel [...]

This 2 bed/1 bath mid-century modern by Charles Goodman in Hammond Wood is down to $307K from its original listing price of $332K. Hammond Wood in Wheaton is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The model, Goodman’s smallest, is known as the Unit 2BR and was built with vertical cypress wood siding and reclaimed brick, which is [...]

Looks like it should be good weather for checking out open houses on Sunday. My Charles Goodman listing in Hollin Hills will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. If you are looking for a Goodman in Maryland, take a look at this 2 bed/1 bath in Hammond Wood. The price has been reduced to [...]

In addition to designing homes for local developers who built signature “Goodman” communities such as Hollin Hills, River Park, Hickory Cluster, Rock Creek Woods and Hammond Wood among others, Charles Goodman also served as an architect for Lafayette, Ind.-based National Homes, which was the country’s largest prefab home manufacturer. A 1954 Time article described Jim [...]

Here’s a new listing for a 1962 barrel-roof townhome in Charles Goodman’s River Park. The end unit is listed for $394K. You can see images here. A few years before Goodman designed the aluminum-clad townhome and apartment building complex in Southwest DC, Reynolds Metals Company, which sponsored the development, published an interesting book, Aluminum in [...]

With people away at the beach, it has been a bit quiet regarding new mid-century modern listings coming on the market. We’ll see if we see the same surge after Labor Day that we saw in the spring. Here are two Charles Goodman-designed townhomes in Hickory Cluster in Reston that have come on in recent [...]