Mold Testing in Montgomery County, MD

Bethesda mixes postwar brick colonials with condominium towers, so a building's age often changes more block to block than mile to mile.

Chevy Chase's early planned streets now fall under several separate town governments, each with its own permitting history.

Silver Spring runs from a dense downtown core out to older streetcar-era suburbs and basement apartments carved into single family houses.

Takoma Park's tree-lined streets carry Victorian-era frame houses, brick bungalows and garden apartments within a few blocks of each other.

Kensington's Victorian rail suburb core gives way to postwar streets built closer to Rock Creek Park's stream valley.

The county seat spans a historic downtown, mid-century neighborhoods and newer construction around the Town Center and King Farm.

Aspen Hill's Georgia Avenue corridor pairs older garden apartments with single family streets from several different building decades.

Potomac's large lots along the river and its rustic roads sit farther from public water and sewer lines than most of the county.

Gaithersburg's planned communities and older downtown sit along the I-270 corridor, with houses from many different decades close together.

Germantown's subdivisions arrived in successive waves after the interstate corridor opened, so a house's age can vary sharply within one neighborhood.

Clarksburg anchors the I-270 corridor's north end, where an older crossroads village sits beside a still-expanding planned town center.

Montgomery Village's original neighborhoods sit around its planned lakes and parks, while apartment and condominium buildings fill in the newer sections.

Olney grew up around a nineteenth century crossroads, and its newer subdivisions now sit between long-held farmland and the town center.

Damascus sits at the edge of the county's Agricultural Reserve, where newer townhomes meet older farmhouses along the stream valleys.