Please join the DC Historic Preservation Office, the DC Preservation League, and Architectural Historian Heather McMahon for this public presentation about the Housing Black Washington Multiple Property Document. This project is funded by an Underrepresented Communities Grant from the National Park Service. This study looks closely at the places Black Washingtonians have called home over ... Read more
Spanning the university’s genesis in 1789 through to today, the new book, Georgetown University: An Architectural History, provides the reader with a close look at over fifty campus buildings. This book presentation will explore the Georgetown University campus over time with highlights of its historical and modern architecture, from the Old North building (1795) to ... Read more
In 2020, the DC Preservation League partnered with the DC State Historic Preservation Office to implement grant funding from the National Park Service to produce a context study on Women’s Suffrage in Washington, DC. Adding on to that project, in 2022, DCPL received a competitive grant from the National Park Service to underwrite development of ... Read more
Join DCPL for this exciting tour offered in partnership with Washington Walks! Discover an overlooked aspect of DC’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood: a collection of Federal era mansions hiding in plain sight that were homes to men such as Founding Fathers James Madison and James Monroe. In the early 1800s wealthy, influential politicians and officials built substantial ... Read more
