Online Planning Library: The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) will commemorate its 100-year anniversary in 2024.
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) will commemorate its 100-year anniversary in 2024. Already started is https://centennial.ncpc.gov/library.html Online Planning Library NCPC shares a planning legacy with the District of Columbia Office … Continue reading
(Repeat) Past Planning for the Future: DC’s 1950 Comprehensive Plan … or, Planning Atomic-Age Washington
originally PUBLISHED: APRIL 10TH, 2017 Click this to find our archive of What Once Was articles. https://matthewbgilmore.wordpress.com/what-once-was/ By Matthew B. Gilmore* [original TheIntowner Editor’s note: A complete revision of the … Continue reading
NCPC – Special Event: One Night, 100 Years, January 23, 2024
Tuesday Special Event: One Night, 100 Years 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Online Meeting Overview Put on your favorite sweater, grab a hot drink, and “join us in the … Continue reading
What Once Was–DC History Column — Matthew B. Gilmore
What Once Was — Matthew B. Gilmore (archival links below) Washington DC, Center of Manufacturing . . . PUBLISHED: JULY 18TH, 2015 Washington’s Lime Kilns: Creating the stuff of building PUBLISHED: AUGUST … Continue reading
Cameron Logan– Interview with a Washington DC History Author – “Historic Capital: Preservation, Race and Real Estate in Washington, DC”
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/historic-capital University of Minnesota Press, 2017 Tell us about the book. This is a book about the preservation movement in Washington, DC, across the 20th Century. I focus on the physical impact … Continue reading
Latrobe Chapter Symposium – October 28, 2017 “City and Capital: Building Washington, DC, as Home and Symbol”
City and Capital: Building Washington, DC, as Home and Symbol 12th Biennial Symposium on the Historic Development of Metropolitan Washington, DC The Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and … Continue reading
What Once Was “Good order, good taste, and with due regard to public interests involved”: the origins of the Shipstead-Luce Act
What Once Was “Good order, good taste, and with due regard to public interests involved”: the origins of the Shipstead-Luce Act By Matthew B. Gilmore* On May 16, 1930 Congress … Continue reading
Past Planning for the Future: DC’s 1950 Comprehensive Plan …
… or, Planning Atomic-Age Washington PUBLISHED: APRIL 10TH, 2017 Click this to find our archive of What Once Was articles. Tip: Click any image in the article to view that … Continue reading
Washington DC History Resources 