Peerless Rockville Board of Directors 2025-2026
The Peerless Rockville Nominating Committee is pleased to present candidates for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. All members will receive an email invitation to vote for directors and officers electronically after the in-person Annual Meeting on June 5. Please be sure your membership is up to date and your email address is current to receive the […]
Montrose Newsletter: Years of Transition 1920 -1940
Montrose School served a small, rural population. Through the 1920s and 1930s, Montgomery County remained largely rural, particularly north of the close-in DC suburbs of Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Takoma Park. The total county population rose slowly from c. 35,000 to c. 84,000 during those decades, while the town of Rockville increased from 1,145 to […]
New Civil War Trail Sign on North Washington St.
Peerless Rockville was thrilled to help cut the ribbon last week at the new Civil War Trails site at North Washington Street and Wood Lane in Rockville to honor Zedekiah Thompson. A local formerly enslaved Black man, Thompson self-emancipated and later served in the U.S. Army’s 1st United States Colored Infantry. The project was led […]
Montrose Newsletter: Early Life, 1909 – 1922
Many changes have come to the Montrose School in its century of life, but the building has remained mostly the same as the area around it transformed. When Montrose School opened in 1909, the surrounding area was mostly composed of family farms, with a few businesses along unpaved Rockville Pike. At that time more than […]
Montrose Newsletter: Establishment & Growth
Establishment & Growth By Carol Ray Duvall and Eileen McGuckian As we move forward on returning Montrose School to active use, we reflect on the past of this special place. Montrose School was designed by local architect Thomas C. Groomes. The frame and pebble dash building is typical of school houses of its time, with […]
Montrose Newsletter
Each day, thousands of commuters on the Rockville Pike drive past a white stucco building with a green metal roof. Surrounded by shopping malls, towering high rises, and bustling roads, diminutive 1909 Montrose School evokes a unique era in local educational history and plays a special role for Peerless Rockville. Thomas C. Groomes designed this […]
Peerless Rockville Office Closed Today – 2/7/25
The Peerless Rockville office is closed today – February 7, 2025. You can always reach us via e-mail. We will be open normally on Monday.
Holiday Schedule
Peerless Rockville will be closed November 11, for Veterans’ Day. We will also be closed starting at 1 pm on November 27 through November 29 so staff can celebrate Thanksgiving with their families. In December, the office will be closed December 24-December 27, and December 31-January 1. Remember, you can always get in touch via […]
Rockville Town Center Master Plan – Public Hearing Oct. 28
City staff want to receive input from residents on the future of Town Center! On September 25 the Planning Commission approved the draft Town Center Master Plan and authorized its transmittal to the Mayor and Council. This is a major milestone in the process, which officially moves the project on to its final phase: seeking adoption by […]
Montrose School Update
A REUNION AT HISTORIC MONTROSE SCHOOLHOUSE, 40 YEARS IN THE MAKING In 1979, Peerless Rockville boldly purchased a dilapidated two-room schoolhouse that was in the path of a planned major highway. State officials leased the land for $1 a year, with the agreement that Peerless would move the building when the road was built. The […]