Article: Pages of History; Learning to Take Pride In a Cozy Bungalow Ordered by Mail

Every other weekend for a year Catherine Fox and her husband, John Didier, searched for a house in the Washington area that they could call home. Finally, in January 1990, they found an airy five-bedroom in Chevy Chase, D.C., and decided to buy.

They were pleased that their search was over and that they had found what they thought was a unique house.

But Fox and Didier were in for a surprise.

Last September, Didier found under the front door a letter from Mary Rowse, co-director of Historic Chevy Chase, D.C., a nonprofit group that documents neighborhood history and design. Rowse wrote that she had "tentatively identified" the house as a catalogue house called "The Chevy Chase," made ...

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