Join DCPL for an in-person home tour of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House. Listed as a National Historic Landmark, the row house is notable for its significance as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and as the DC residence of Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), educator and civil rights leader. The ... Read more
For the past 12 years, Joe McGill has slept in former slave dwellings in 26 states and the District of Columbia. He has done so to bring much needed attention to these often neglected dwellings and the enslaved people who lived in them. Join the DC Preservation League for a webinar titled: The Educational Value of Sleeping ... Read more
M Street High School was one of the first high schools for Black students in the nation that was constructed with public funds. M Street produced national leaders and sent an unusually large number of its graduates to the nation’s leading colleges and universities despite the Black population's restricted access to equal education opportunities. The ... Read more
Ruppert House, courtesy of HABS. Established in 1933 as a work relief program for unemployed architects during the Great Depression, the Historic American Buildings Survey is the federal government’s oldest historic preservation program. Documentation produced by HABS, consisting of architectural measured drawings, photographs, and historical reports, is housed at the Prints and Photographs Division ... Read more
