Dates

• Creation: Majority of material found within 1969 - 1998

Extent

57.75 Linear feet (68 boxes)

Inventory

Box 1: Typescript, photocopied, and printed documents and newspaper clipping relating to redevelopment of Washington, D.C. City Post Office. Includes plans and designs for National Postal History and Philatelic Museum, other proposals, assessments, and Historic Structure Report. Box 2: Typescript, photocopied, and handwritten documents relating to PEPCO Substation No. 12 demolition/preservation debate. Includes legal documents, correspondence, holograph notes. Box 3: Typescript documents, photocopied documents, printed materials, holograph notes, and newspaper clippings relating to demolition/preservation/redevelopment of various DC buildings and spaces; materials relating to establishment of DC Home Rule. Includes numerous legal documents; correspondence; designs and plans; printed Hearings before the House of Representatives Committee on the District of Columbia regarding Home Rule; flyers; printed booklets; holograph notes. Box 4: Materials relating to Lansburgh’s Department Store redevelopment, including typescript documents; printed designs and other materials; correspondence; holograph note; photo print. Materials relating to Bond Building, including typescript documents; photocopied materials; newspaper clippings; correspondence; holograph notes. Materials relating to Babcock-Macomb House, including typescript documents; photocopied and printed architectural plans; printed photographs; correspondence; holograph petition; holograph notes. Box 5: Materials relating to Downtown Development District, including holograph notes; typescript documents and bound booklets; printed reports; newsletters; correspondence; newspaper clippings and photocopies; planning maps. Materials relating to Landsburgh’s Furniture Store (Masonic Temple), including typescript documents; newspaper clippings and photocopies; printed DC landmark map; holograph notes; photocopied legal records; newsletter; photocopied photos of buildings. Box 6: Materials relating to “Small Buildings Study” (preservation of small historic buildings in downtown Washington, DC), including printed and typescript documents, mostly bound reports and proposals; photocopied materials. Materials relating to Old Post Office, including newspaper clippings and photocopies; printed periodical of National Geographic; typescript documents; printed and photocopied materials; brochures; correspondence; architectural maps, designs, plans; newsletter; holograph notes. Box 7: Materials relating to Michler Place, including photocopied holograph and typescript documents; typescript documents; correspondence; holograph notes; National Register of Historic Places nomination form; newspaper photocopies; legal code photocopies. Materials relating to Munsey Building, including typescript and printed documents; photocopies; holograph notes; correspondence; legal forms; bound legal briefs; bound development prospectus of Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation. Box 8: Materials relating to Munsey Building, including typescript, photocopied, and printed documents mostly pertaining to legal proceedings; correspondence; newspaper clippings; holograph notes. Materials relating to Palais Royale, including typescript documents; holograph notes; photocopied materials; bound typescript application with photo prints; newsletter. Assorted materials relating primarily to downtown Historic District, including photocopied legal documents; newspaper clippings; typescript documents; official forms; correspondence; other photocopied materials. Box 9: 2 binders of materials from 1986 Mayor’s Committee on Eastern Market; background materials and research relating to 1141-1147 Connecticut Ave; materials relating to Pennsylvania Ave Development Corporation and Kann’s, including typescript and printed documents, photocopied material, correspondence, newspaper clippings, holograph notes, photo prints; materials relating to Old Post Office. Box 10: Materials relating to internal structure, leadership, and activities of Don’t Tear It Down, including memos, board profiles, meeting minutes and agendas, reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, holograph notes, press releases, printed pamphlets, testimony, newsletters, fundraising documents, membership and mailing lists, other assorted materials. Box 11: Materials relating to internal structure, leadership, and activities of Don’t Tear It Down, including financial documents and budgets, contracts/agreements, personnel documents, meeting minutes and agendas, reports. Box 12: Materials relating primarily to internal functioning of Don’t Tear It Down, including meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, holograph notes, financial documents, reports. Box 13: Materials relating to DC Preservation League activities. Includes correspondence, payments, grant information, and financial records; reports, including on historic districts in Washington, DC and historic preservation process in Washington, DC; holograph notes; contracts; applications; materials relating to D.C. Apartment Building Survey Project; other assorted materials. Box 14: Materials relating to Dupont Circle, National Mall, Dunbar High School, Eastern Market, Eisenhower Civic Center, Massachusetts Ave Historic District, 1700 block of Massachusetts Ave, East Capitol St, DC Height Amendment Act of 1979, 1700 block of N St, National Press Building. Includes correspondence, typescript documents, printed and photocopied materials, holograph notes, newspaper clippings, photo prints, reports, and other miscellaneous documents. Grant applications and related materials. Box 15: Materials relating to Another Great Preservation Auction 1979, including correspondence, typescript and holograph notes, schedule, newspaper clippings and photocopies, newsletters, periodicals and magazines, photo prints, envelopes, purchase records, assorted printed materials. Box 16: Materials relating to President Monroe Apartment Building at 423-425 Massachusetts Ave NW, including correspondence, photo prints, memos, holograph and typescript notes, various printed and photocopied documents, legal documents, newspaper clippings, other assorted materials. Box 17: Materials relating to Willard Hotel, including correspondence, brochure, newspaper clippings, holograph notes, legal records, reports, photocopied materials, other assorted documents; materials relating to Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, including correspondence, memos, reports, meeting agendas and minutes, newspaper clippings, holograph notes, typescript and photocopied documents; materials relating to Engine Company Number 24, including correspondence, photo prints, blueprint plans, newspaper clippings, newsletters, legal documents, holograph notes, other assorted materials; collected and bound materials relating to Pinecrest Manor; materials relating to Cooper Houses at 2521-23 K St NW, including printed and typescript documents, reports, holograph notes, floor plans, photo prints, correspondence, legal documents, forms, other assorted documents; materials relating to President Monroe Apartment Building at 423-425 Massachusetts Ave NW. Box 18: Materials relating to: Handicap Waiver - D.C. Law 3-76 proposed guidelines; historic districts; Apartment Building Survey & lecture; Metropolitan Baptist Church; Metro Center; Mormon Church at 16th St and Columbia Rd; Planning and Management Assistance Project; Mayflower Hotel; McGill Building; McLean Gardens; Mt. Pleasant Historic District; District of Columbia Downtown Partnership; Public Relations & Publicity Committee; National Historic Preservation Week; D.C. Preservation Alliance Conference 1986; legislative efforts relating to D.C. Regulation 73-25; collected research relating to preservation and rehabilitation of historic buildings; Rhodes Tavern; Keith-Albee Theatre; Metropolitan Bank. Box 19: Typescript, printed, and holograph materials relating to Don’t Tear It Down auctions. Box 20: 25 folders plus loose papers of materials relating to various projects, including Board of Zoning Adjustment, Capitol Hill, and convention center. Includes typescript, printed, photocopied, and holograph materials, newspaper clippings. Box 21: 9 folders, 2 bound collections, and loose papers of materials relating to various DC Preservation League projects and internal affairs. Includes Greyhound Bus Terminal, Franklin School, Franklin Plaza, historical landmarks, DC Preservation League bylaws. Materials include typescript, holograph, photocopied, and printed materials; photo prints; newspaper clippings; building plans. Box 22: Approx. 34 folders and loose papers relating to various DC Preservation League projects. Includes National Endowment for the Arts funding; downtown survey; 1755 Q St NW; Redevelopment Land Agency; Lincoln Theater. Materials include typescript, holograph, printed, photocopied materials; photo prints; newspaper clippings. Box 23: Approx. 43 folders plus loose papers relating to various Don’t Tear It Down projects, activities, and internal affairs. Includes materials relating to membership and meetings; National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award; auction; District of Columbia Comprehensive Plan 1983-1984. Materials include typescript, holograph, printed, photocopied materials; newspaper clippings. Box 24: Approx. 30 folders of administrative files. Includes correspondence, financial records, holograph notes, forms, reports. Box 25: Approx. 30 folders of materials relating to various DC Preservation League projects. Includes Downtown Urban Renewal; Wardman Tower; Warner Theater; West End; Wyoming Apartment Building. Materials include typescript, printed, photocopied, and holograph materials; newspaper clippings. Box 26: Approx. 39 folders of materials relating to various DC Preservation League projects and activities. Includes GWU campus plan, Federal Home Loan Bank Building; South Leg Freeway; Summer School; Techworld. Materials include typescript, holograph, printed, photocopied materials; newspaper clippings. Box 27: 11 folders, 2 envelopes, and loose papers relating to various DC Preservation League projects and activities. Includes Old Patent Office; Take One Tours of Metrobus G2 and S2/S4 routes; testimony. Materials include typescript, holograph, printed, photocopied materials; newspaper clippings. Box 28: Approx. 34 folders of materials relating to various DC Preservation League projects and activities. Includes Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; George Washington University and World Bank; 1908-1916 G St NW. Materials include typescript, holograph, printed, photocopied materials; newspaper clippings; building plans. Box 29: Approx. 35 folders of holograph, typescript, printed, and photocopied materials and newspaper clippings relating to Downtown Survey, ca. 1980. Box 30: Approx. 37 folders plus loose papers of materials relating to Downtown Survey, ca. 1980. Includes photo prints; holograph, typescript, printed, photocopied materials. Box 31: Approx. 33 folders of materials relating to Downtown Survey, ca. 1980. Includes photo prints; typescript, photocopied, printed, holograph materials; loose area map. Box 32: Approx. 25 folders plus loose papers of materials relating to Downtown Survey, ca. 1980. Includes typescript, photocopied, printed, holograph materials; newspaper clippings; mail. Box 33: Typescript and printed materials relating to Downtown Historic District. Includes bound materials, including environmental impact statements and piece relating to city of Atlanta. Box 34: 23 folders plus loose papers relating to Downtown Small Building Survey 1988-1990. Includes typescript, printed, photocopied, holograph materials. Box 35: 32 folders of printed, typescript, holograph, and photocopied materials relating to surveys of warehouses, banks, office buildings. Includes documents relating to internal functioning and grant applications of DC preservation League. Box 36: Approx. 33 folders plus loose papers of materials relating to grants, fundraising, surveys, and other DC Preservation League activities. Includes typescript, printed, photocopied, holograph materials; newspaper clippings; maps; brochures; booklet. Box 37: Approx. 26 folders of materials relating to Shaw surveys ca. 1984-1992. Includes printed, typescript, holograph, photocopied materials; newspaper clippings. Box 38: 21 folders of materials relating to Shaw surveys ca. 1992-1998. Includes typescript, printed, photocopied, holograph materials; photo prints and negatives; photocopied newspapers. Box 39: 12 folders plus loose papers of materials relating to Street Museum and other Don’t Tear It Down / DC Preservation League functioning, activities, and interests. Includes holograph, typescript, printed, photocopied materials; pamphlets; promotional materials; newspaper clippings; newsletters. Box 40: Approx. 45 folders of materials relating to various Don’t Tear It Down / DC Preservation League activities, including fundraising, grant requests, events, meetings. Includes holograph, typescript, printed, photocopied materials; pamphlets; catalogs; promotional materials. Box 41: 8 folders containing subfolders of materials relating to DC Preservation League fundraising, including grant applications, correspondence, documents relating to tours, and other assorted materials. Materials include typescript, printed, holograph materials; newspaper clippings. Box 42: 10 folders containing subfolders of materials relating to DC Preservation League fundraising, including grant applications, funding appeals, correspondence, documents relating to lecture series, documents relating to event about fundraising, and other assorted materials. Materials include typescript, printed, holograph materials. Box 43: Approx. 75 folders of clippings and photocopies of newspapers, periodicals, and other press relating to DC Preservation League concerns. Box 44: Approx. 45 folders plus loose papers of materials relating to DC Preservation League activities, internal functioning, publicity, fundraising. Includes materials relating to “Reorganizations Project ‘84”. Materials include typescript, printed, photocopied, holograph materials. Box 45: Approx. 36 folders, 1 binder, and loose papers of materials relating to DC Preservation League projects, activities, and internal functioning. Includes publicity and press materials; project files; materials relating to DC Preservation League “Most Endangered” lists; memos; other assorted materials. Materials include typescript, printed, photocopied, holograph materials; printed periodical; newspaper clippings; floor plans. Box 46: Approx. 33 folders of materials relating to Save Outdoor Scultpure!, including notes, publicity, correspondence, financial documents, agreements, grant applications, memos, other assorted materials. Materials include holograph, typescript, printed, photocopied materials; photo prints; newspaper clippings. Box 47: 5 rolled items and one folded item, all architectural designs. Box 48: 2 rolled architectural designs. Box 49: 3 rolled items (2 architectural designs and 1 map). Box 50: 7 rolled items, primarily architectural designs. Box 51: 7 rolled items, primarily architectural designs. Box 52: 4 rolled items, primarily architectural designs. Box 53: 5 rolled items, primarily architectural designs. Box 54: 7 rolled items, primarily architectural designs. Box 55: 6 rolled items, primarily architectural designs. Box 56: 2 rolled architectural designs. Box 57: Typescript document with photo prints relating to TechWorld. Box 58/59: 2 rolled items, including map and architectural designs. Box 60/61: 2 rolled items, including architectural designs and poster. Box 62: DC Preservation League membership cards, including dues payment records. Box 63: DC Preservation League contact and membership cards, including dues payment records. Box 64: DC Preservation League contact and membership cards, including dues payment records. Box 65: DC Preservation League membership cards, including dues payment records. Box 66: DC Preservation League membership cards, including dues payment records. Box 67: Photo prints of various buildings. Also includes slide negatives, artistic renderings of buildings, floor plans, and documents relating to certain properties. Box 68: 3 groupings of materials relating to Red Lion Row at 2000 I St NW (a.k.a. Eye St NW), including correspondence, memos, legal documents, holograph notes, newspaper/periodical clippings and photocopies, floor plans, DC government records, other assorted materials. Box 69: Materials relating to Red Lion Row at 2000 I St NW (a.k.a. Eye St NW), Rhodes Tavern, Keith-Albee Theatre, and Metropolitan Bank. Materials include meeting agendas, correspondence, memos, legal documents, holograph and typescript notes, building sketches, newspaper/periodical clippings and photocopies, printed brochures, bound reports, other assorted materials. Box 69A: Materials relating to Southeast Federal Center and 14th + U Streets, including newspaper/periodical clippings and photocopies, correspondence, holograph notes, maps and designs, planning documents, reports, memos, legal code, official forms, other assorted materials.