The Americana Centre was the major residential outcome of the Mid-City Project and considerably more successful than the commercial arm, the Rockville Mall. It offered modern multi-family housing opportunities near the urban core and major transportation routes. This housing development remains the most recognizable piece of the Mid-City project, and continues to provide homes to Rockville residents today.
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New Housing in Rockville
New Housing in Rockville
The Americana Centre, which opened in 1972, brought new housing options to downtown Rockville. A modern community designed by Carl M. Freeman, the Americana Centre offered hi-rise living amidst town homes and garden-terrace apartments. The innovative development ushered in a new era of residential housing that fulfilled design and planning goals and created a distinctively modern multi-family community. In 1968, Rockville selected Carl M. Freeman and Associates, an established developer of modern homes and garden apartments in the Washington area, to design and construct a high-density housing complex on a strategically sited six-acre parcel. For this project, he was tasked with developing a community that conformed to Mid-City design guidelines and included hi-rise and garden-terrace apartments with surface and underground parking.
Model of Americana Centre
Model of Americana Centre
"Photograph of a Model showing residential development orginally proposed by Carl M. Freeman on a 5.5 acre parcel of residential land in Rockville's Mid-City Urban Renewal Area. Parcel to be developed now stands at 7.5 acres" (Undated text from reverse of photograph)
Photographs from the Collections of Peerless Rockville / Roy Perry Collection
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