Clum-Kennedy Park

Clum-Kennedy Park is a one-acre park with walking paths curving past mature trees, azaleas, lilacs, and boxwood, and an arbor near the Frederick Avenue entrance supports a large grape vine that produces grapes in late summer. The property was purchased in 1947 by newspaperman Cornelius Clum's daughters, Helen, Mary, and Bertha, who wanted to preserve open space and create a well-tended garden as the Kensington area became more developed. The sisters lived across from the park on Kensington Parkway, formerly Prince George's Avenue, in the house where they had grown up. Bertha's love of gardening gradually transformed the overgrown land into a welcoming garden with native plants and flowers. In 1984, Bertha sold the property to the Town of Kensington on the condition that it become a public park and be named for her neighbor Frank Kennedy, who helped maintain it. After Bertha's death in 1987, the garden was renamed Clum-Kennedy Park. In 2020, the Town received a State Program Open Space Grant for improvements including the brick pathway, new pergola, wood bench and bridge, and reconfiguration of the gardens.

Kensington, Maryland · United States