historic preservation

As a company, Apple is less focused on selling stuff. It doesn’t sell as many iPhones as it once did and is more focused on selling subscriptions and services, none of which require a store for purchases or even consideration.

Very interesting residential plans are on the boards for an underutilized alley property on Capitol Hill.

The recent designations of neighborhoods as historic districts in DC has come with an added benefit: grants for home repairs.

The DC Preservation League has applied to seek historic landmark designation for the American Theater, a single-story building in Bloomingdale.

With the sun out and Washington’s cherry blossoms at peak bloom, visitors on Wednesday thronged the Tidal Basin, eating picnic lunches and taking selfies beneath some of the Mall’s 3,800 cherry trees.

You only have to walk a few feet away from the Jefferson Memorial to see why the National Park Service and a contingent of preservation groups are raising alarms.

The team behind Georgetown's West Heating Plant project is approaching the latest in a series of hurdles in its six-year effort to redevelop the World War II-era plant.

Eleven months after garnering a mixed judgment from the Historic Preservation Review Board, the team seeking to redevelop the Georgetown West Heating Plant is pivoting the project to tackle zoning concerns.

In 2017, UrbanTurf reported on the sale of the former Medhane Alem Eritrean Church at 150 S Street NW (map). Now, following the edifice being razed under potentially illegal circumstances, plans for the future of the site are coming into…

In recent years, various DC communities have preemptively sought to have certain properties designated as historic landmarks in order to preclude larger development on those sites. Today, however, one property owner has succeeded in…

Another historic district could be afoot for the District of Columbia.

The nonprofit D.C. Preservation League (DCPL) wants to have roughly 71 acres in Judiciary Square—the Northwest neighborhood housing local and federal courthouses—classified as a historic district. The Historic Preservation Office announced…

After an oversight hearing earlier this month where more or less nothing was learned, the D.C. Council on Wednesday had another meeting trying to ascertain how and why developers of a new museum destroyed so much historically protected…

If a homeowner wants to put solar panels on a roof facing a street, is that a laudable step toward fighting climate change or an affront to historic preservation? With a recent preservation board ruling, DC's historic preservation system…

The set of 97 steps between M Street NW and Prospect Street in Georgetown—better known as the Exorcist Steps—is now a historical landmark. But don’t queue up the 1973 movie in celebration yet: We don’t exactly have The Exorcist to thank.

The Historic Preservation Review Board approved the nomination of the site last week