Explore a Park: Hogge Park get an upgrade

This article is part of Annandale Today’s Explore a Park series. Previous parks in the series include Manassas Gap Park, Luria Park, and Fitzhugh Park in Annandale and Lillian Carey Park in Bailey’s Crossroads. 

Updated June 3, 2023: The 6-acre Boyd A. and Charlotte M. Hogge Park, at 3139 Glen Carlyn Road in Bailey’s Crossroads, underwent a major upgrade in 2022. 

Features: The renovations included the addition of community garden plots with raised beds, two pickleball courts, a basketball court, picnic pavilion and grill, asphalt trails, a parking lot, and a stormwater facility.

The park has two sections; the northern section has recreation and open lawn areas, while the wooded southern section is bisected by Long Branch stream.

Access: The best ways to get to Hogge Park are from Glen Carlyn Road and Magnolia Ave. The park is surrounded by St. Katherine’s Greek Orthodox Church, St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School’s athletic fields, and the Glen Acres, Carlyn Ridge, the Glen of Carlyn, and Hardwick Court communities. The Woodlake Towers Condominiums are nearby.

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History: According to the Master Plan for Hogge Park, the Park Authority purchased the property in April 2006 from Charlotte Hogge and her children. The condition of the sale called for Charlotte Hogge to continue to live on the property for the rest of her life.

After she died, in 2007, her daughter, Marguerite Ashton Hogge, remained on the property by lease agreement until March 2008. At that point, the Park Authority took possession of the property.

An evaluation of the Hogge home was conducted in 2007, and the structure was deemed not worthy of preservation. The house was demolished in 2009.

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The property where the park is located had changed hands numerous times in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the Master Plan states. In 1900, Charles Keller purchased the property from William Lawn. He sold it around 1910 to the Hummer family, who divided the land into tracts.

In 1930, John Robbins Bradley and his wife Bessie purchased the property from the Hummers and constructed a home in the Spanish Colonial style. The house remained on the site through various subsequent owners.

In 1943, a portion of the property was sold to Harold and Catherine Heishman. They subdivided the property in 1957 to create lots for single-family homes, known as Heishman’s Addition to Glen Acres.

The property was acquired by the Hogge family in two portions, starting with the northern portion in 1959, then the southern portion in 1971.