It's not hard to see why President Grover Cleveland chose this neighborhood, once rolling farmland, as the site of the summer White House during his first administration in 1886.

Today, the tree-lined residential community is an architectural treasure -- with Victorians, Sherman cottages, Colonial Georgian Revivals, Foursquares (also known as farmhouses), bungalows and Dutch Colonial Revivals to name but a few of the architectural styles.

President Cleveland's Victorian home (a picturesque Queen Anne by all accounts) was razed in 1927. But it once stood at the intersection of Newark and 36th Streets, the heart of historic Cleveland Park.

At about the same time (around 1925), retail stores began opening on Connecticut Avenue, launching that stretch of real estate as a commercial corridor. Among the most prominent businesses to call Cleveland Park home is the Uptown Theatre, an Art Deco Washington landmark erected in 1936.

Cleveland Park was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, a year after the neighborhood had been designated as an historic district.

In addition to some spectacular single-family homes, the neighborhood includes some condominiums, cooperatives and rental apartments.

According to the Cleveland Park Historic District, the neighborhood's boundaries include Wisconsin & Idaho Avenues to the west, Connecticut Avenue to the east, Tilden Street to the north, and Woodley Road and Klingle Valley Parkway to the south.

The historic district is not a perfect square and includes some property to the east of Connecticut Avenue, such as The Broadmoor, a cooperative located on the northeast corner of Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street as well as "La Quinta" the Indian Ambassadors house at 2700 Macomb Street.

The Gothic Revival co-op, which was built in 1929 on a 5-acre site, is featured in James M. Goode's landmark book: "Best Addresses: A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses."