Please join the DC Preservation League for this walking tour exploring Black Built Modernist Buildings along Benning Road in Washington, DC. This tour will be led by Imania Price, Historic Preservation Specialist at the DC Historic Preservation Office. The event will start at the entrance of the Benning Road Metro Station (Blue and Silver Lines) ... Read more
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The Anacostia Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978—with approximately 550 buildings comprising the historic district, dating from 1854 to about 1930. This historic district is unique because it preserves the city's largest and most intact collection of late-19th- and early-20th-century, small-scale, working-class frame and brick housing. In October 2021, ... Read more
Woodley Park is a quiet residential oasis alongside the bustling Connecticut Avenue corridor. Named for Philip Barton Key’s Federal-era mansion, the neighborhood bloomed in the early twentieth century when the Rock Creek ravine was spanned with the “Million Dollar Bridge” (officially named the William Howard Taft bridge). Prominent developer Harry Wardman liked the area so much that ... Read more
