Editing Takoma Park, Maryland (section)

===Early 20th century===
In 1904, the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] purchased five acres of land in Takoma Park along Carroll Avenue, Laurel Avenue, and Willow Avenue.<ref name="largely">{{Cite news |date=May 15, 1904 |title=Seventh Day Adventists: Colonizing Largely in Takoma Park, Montgomery County |page=11 |work=The Baltimore Sun |id={{ProQuest|536847192}}}}</ref> The land was located on both sides of the Maryland-District of Columbia border.<ref name=largely/> The land was intended for a church, office building, printer, and residences for prominent members of the church.<ref name=largely/> In 1903, the Seventh-day Adventist Church decided to move their headquarters to the Washington area after its headquarters' publishing house in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], had burned to the ground.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 9, 1904 |title=Deem Fire a Blessing: Why Seventh-day Adventists Moved to Washington |page=10 |newspaper=The Washington Post |id={{ProQuest|144498698}}}}</ref> The church decided that moving to a more urban setting would be a more appropriate place from which to increase the church's presence in the southern states.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 10, 1905 |title=Work of Adventists: Denomination Makes Washington Its Headquarters |newspaper=The Washington Post |id={{ProQuest|144552432}}}}</ref> The church purchased fifty acres of land along [[Sligo Creek]] in Takoma Park to build the new headquarters.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 8, 1903 |title=Home for Adventists: Church Executives Perfecting Plans to Build Here |newspaper=The Washington Post |id={{ProQuest|144391958}}}}</ref> The land was away from downtown Washington and had clean water available from a natural spring located at present-day Spring Park.<ref name="marksend">{{Cite news |last=Pressley |first=Sue Anne |date=May 5, 1989 |title=Adventists' Move Marks End of Era: Takoma Park Losing 80-Year Neighbor |page=C7 |newspaper=The Washington Post |id={{ProQuest|140016506}}}}</ref> For many decades Takoma Park served as the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hyer |first=Marjorie |date=August 29, 1981 |title=Seventh-Day Adventists Reeling From Financial, Theological Crises |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VicxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6786,4993830&dq=takoma+seventh-day-adventist+headquarters&hl=en |url-status=live |access-date=October 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016081112/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VicxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pAIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6786,4993830&dq=takoma+seventh-day-adventist+headquarters&hl=en |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> until it moved to northern Silver Spring in 1989.<ref name=marksend/>

In 1908, North Takoma Hotel was bought by Louis Denton Bliss, who turned it into Bliss Electrical School.<ref name= centuries/> Months later, a fire destroyed the building, and Bliss rebuilt the school at another site.<ref name= centuries/> The school was eventually bought by Montgomery County where it became the site of [[Montgomery College]]'s Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus.<ref name= centuries/>