Plat No. 242, filed December 5, 1922 for H. Bradley Davidson, laid Chevy Chase Terrace out of parts of the old Oatland and Friendship tracts.
Chevy Chase Terrace was recorded three decades after the Chevy Chase Land Company's first sections, and by a different owner on different ground. H. Bradley Davidson filed Plat No. 242 on December 5, 1922, cutting Nottingham Drive, Norwood Place, Davidson Drive, Stratford Road and a stretch of Chevy Chase Boulevard out of parts of the Oatland and Friendship tracts. Roughly 95 dwellings carry the name on the Maryland assessment rolls. It is small, it is unincorporated, and its defining legal feature is not zoning but a covenant the 1922 dedication wrote into the land itself.
Five street names carry the original layout, and the subdivision has kept them: Nottingham Drive, Norwood Place, Davidson Drive — named for the owner who filed the plat — Stratford Road and Chevy Chase Boulevard. Because the ground came out of the Oatland and Friendship tracts rather than the Land Company's assemblage, Chevy Chase Terrace has no section number and no place in the 1890s sequence that produced the Village and the Town. Worth knowing before you search: some listing portals bundle it with neighboring Somerset Heights under a combined heading. That combined label is a vendor construct, not a recorded plat name. The two subdivisions were filed 23 years apart, by different owners, and their assessment records are separate.
The 1922 dedication established perpetual building-restriction lines across the subdivision. That is a recorded private covenant sitting on top of Montgomery County zoning, and it is the constraint that most often surprises an owner planning work here: the line on the plat can be more restrictive than the setback the zoning code would otherwise allow, and it runs with the land rather than expiring. Any addition, porch enclosure, garage or accessory structure needs to be checked against the recorded plat as well as the code. Pull the plat and a current location survey before an architect draws anything, and have title counsel read the dedication language rather than relying on a summary.
The subdivision has an unusually active resubdivision record for its size, with recordings in 1953, 1979, 1993 and again across 1998 through 2002. Assessment records show construction dates running from 1922 to 2025, so a house from the original build-out can sit directly beside a recent replacement. The lots vary just as widely: roughly 4,000 to 44,000 square feet, averaging around 8,000. In a subdivision of about 95 dwellings, that is a ten-fold spread, and it means comparable sales have to be selected on lot size and construction era rather than on the subdivision name. Confirm both from the assessment record and the recorded plat for the specific parcel.
Chevy Chase Terrace sits outside every municipal boundary in the cluster. That makes it one of the simpler Chevy Chase addresses to underwrite: Montgomery County services, Montgomery County property tax with no municipal layer on top, and a single county permit desk rather than the two-step sequence several neighboring villages run. Schools are also not the cluster default — Terrace addresses are assigned to Somerset Elementary and Westland Middle School, then Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, rather than the Rosemary Hills and Chevy Chase Elementary pairing that serves much of the area to the east. Those are the published assignments for the 2026-2027 school year; verify a specific address with Montgomery County Public Schools before relying on it.
Chevy Chase Terrace sits within Chevy Chase — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
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