Past Events

DC Preservation League Members are invited to join us Tuesday, July 20th from 12:00-1:00pm EDT for a virtual membership meeting! DCPL Staff will share updates related to all program areas and the event will close with Q&A. REGISTER HERE This event is free for current DCPL members. \ Join or renew lapsed memberships before you try and ... Read more

Newsboys at Howard Theatre, circa 1936. Photo Credit: Scurlock Collection, Smithsonian American History Museum. Join the DC Preservation League on Thursday, July 22nd at 12:00 pm EDT for a FREE virtual presentation led by Shellée M. Haynesworth, Executive Producer and Creator of the Black Broadway on U Project! Haynesworth will explore the cultural impact and ... Read more

Photo courtesy of The Avalon Theatre. Elliot O’Donovan, photographer. DC Preservation League Members are invited to join us on Wednesday, July 28th from 10:00 - 11:30am for in in-person tour of The Avalon Theatre! The oldest operating movie house in the DC Metro area, The Avalon Theatre (originally named The Chevy Chase Theatre) has been a ... Read more

Photo: Barry Farms in April 1941. Courtesy of the National Capital Housing Authority. At Barry Farm Dwellings in Southeast DC, a recent historic landmark designation preserved five aging buildings. Filled with public housing until 2019, the rest of the complex was razed for redevelopment. This program highlights the rich history these buildings represent, including its ... Read more

Aerial View of St. Elizabeths Campus, possibly during 1930s. Source: National Archives & Records Administration. DC Preservation League Members are invited to join us on Saturday, August 28th for in in-person tour of St. Elizabeths East Campus, led by Latrena M. Owens, Executive Director of the District of Columbia’s St. Elizabeths East Campus Redevelopment! St. Elizabeths ... Read more

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, 2010. Carol Highsmith, photographer. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. The Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens are located in marshland in northeast DC, on the east shore of the Anacostia River. They were created and maintained by Civil War veteran and US Treasury Department employee W.B. Shaw and his daughter, Helen Shaw Fowler, from 1882 ... Read more

DC Preservation League Members are invited to join us on Sunday, September 12th for a boat tour on the Anacostia River, lead by the Anacostia Watershed Society! This tour will explore the ecological and historical changes that have occurred in the river and in the communities around the river. We will have the opportunity to witness some ... Read more

Rendering of 11th Street Bridge Park, courtesy of OMA+OLIN.   Join the DC Preservation League on Thursday, September 16th at 12:00pm EDT for a webinar about the 11th Street Bridge Park, led by project Director, Scott Kratz! The 11th Street Bridge Park, a project of Ward 8-based nonprofit Building Bridges Across the River, will be Washington, DC’s first elevated public ... Read more