2023 Dick Wolf Lecture – The Collapse and the Opportunity: Cities after COVID

Posted on September 15th, 2023 by Elizabeth Nelson

On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 7 pm, the Society will present the 2023 Dick Wolf Lecture at Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. The speaker will be Professor John Rennie Short, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Baltimore County. He will discuss changes to the urban core of Washington, DC and what the future may bring.  Reception to follow.

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Celebrating Eastern Market for 150 Years – Preservation Cafe

Posted on March 18th, 2023 by Elizabeth Nelson

Eastern Market ca 1983

 Robert Pohl, local historian, author, and tour guide,  presented “Celebrating Eastern Market for 150 Years,” a talk about Eastern Market – the building and its history, at an in-person Preservation Café, March 30, 2023, in the Eastern Market North Hall – operating continuously since it first opened in 1873.

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Hollywood on the Potomac – Membership Meeting

Posted on April 25th, 2022 by Elizabeth Nelson

Our summer Membership Meeting (members only) will be on June 22, 2022 at 6:30 pm.  As part of the meeting Mike Canning will again offer his popular outdoor walking tour, “Hollywood on the Potomac.”  

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