The Village of Martin's Additions is an incorporated Montgomery County municipality of 83.76 acres and roughly 329 homes, governed by an elected five-member Council.
Start with the name, because two different things carry versions of it. The municipality here is the Village of Martin's Additions — plural, with an apostrophe — as the Village itself and the Maryland Manual write it; the singular "Martins Addition" is a common misspelling that will pull the wrong records. It is also the one municipality in the Chevy Chase cluster whose official name leaves "Chevy Chase" out, even though it sits in the middle of the group and carries a Chevy Chase mailing address.
There is a separate recorded subdivision called H.M. Martin's Addition to Chevy Chase View, and it is not this place. That one lies in Kensington, ZIP 20895, roughly two miles north near Chevy Chase View — a different municipality, a different plat and a different school assignment. The similarity is not a coincidence, since both trace to the same Martin family purchases, but nothing else about them transfers. When you are searching tax records, plats or sold comparables, confirm the ZIP and the municipality on the record itself. A search that mixes the two will produce a price picture that describes neither.
Harry M. Martin began buying parcels here in 1896, and the land was subdivided in a series of additions that gave the Village its plural name. Governance came in two widely separated steps. Maryland Senate Bill 207, enacted April 11, 1916, created a special taxing district over the area — a limited arrangement for paying for local services rather than a municipal government. Full incorporation did not follow until much later: the Village's incorporation was recorded March 19, 1985, and its first ordinances were adopted July 9, 1989. That sequence is common across this cluster, where several neighbors also spent decades as taxing districts before chartering as municipalities.
The Village covers 83.76 acres and reports roughly 329 homes; 328 dwellings are separately assessed, with construction dates spanning 1895 to 2025. The number that matters for a renovation budget is this one: 191 of those dwellings — well over half — were built before 1940. Expect early-twentieth-century framing, original chimneys and, in many cases, a sequence of additions layered over a small original footprint. It also means the lots were platted to an older pattern than the postwar sections nearby, so the buildable envelope on a given parcel is worth confirming against the plat rather than assumed from the block. Inspection scope here should be set by construction era, not by list price.
Being inside the Village buys a service package that unincorporated neighbors a block away do not receive: trash and recycling collection, leaf vacuuming, snow plowing and street repair, run by the municipality. It also runs its own permits, which sit alongside the Montgomery County process rather than replacing it — as of August 2026, plan on both, and confirm the current submission steps with the Village before setting a construction schedule. An elected five-member Council governs, and a municipal property tax is levied on top of Montgomery County's. Village addresses are served by the paired Rosemary Hills and Chevy Chase elementary schools, Silver Creek Middle School and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, per the published 2026-2027 assignments; verify a specific address with MCPS.
Martin's Additions sits within Chevy Chase — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
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