PROLOGUE DC can provide you with:
- multimedia presentations depicting the history of your business, school, church, agency or other organization
- display panels with text, images and maps
- historical signage
- historic site/district nominations
- professionally designed historical reports, booklets or brochures
- oral histories documenting your business, school, church, agency or other organization
- thorough and accurate research in DC’s wide range of libraries, archives and other repositories
Here are some of our projects and clients:
National Register Nominations
African American Civil Rights National Register Multiproperty Document for the DC Preservation League
Barry Farm Dwellings Historic Landmark nomination for Empower DC and the Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association, approved by the DC Historic Preservation Review Board
Bloomingdale Historic District Nomination for the Bloomingdale Historic District Coalition, approved unanimously by the DC Historic Preservation Review Board
Kalorama Park historic landmark nomination for the Kalorama Citizens Association. The DC Historic Preservation Review Board voted unanimously to landmark the park on November 19, 2015.
Exhibitions and Historic Site Signage
Eckington Neighborhood Heritage Trail for Cultural Tourism DC (in progress)
Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom signage in Walter Pierce Park, DC
African American Civil Rights Tour for the DC Historic Preservation Office
Hortense Prout National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom signage in Kalorama Park, DC
Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour and mobile app for sculptor Charles Bergen and DowntownDC Business Improvement District. See coverage of the project by WAMU, Washingtonian, and The GW Hatchet.
A Right to the City, 50th Anniversary Project, and Food for the People research for the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
Kogod School of Business, American University – content for a large graphic installation on the history of business in Washington, DC, in celebration of the school’s 60th anniversary.
Union Station Redevelopment Corporation – kiosk displays telling the history of railroads in Washington DC, and of Union Station’s neighborhood.
Cultural Tourism DC – LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale and Anacostia Neighborhood Heritage Trails.
Hillcrest Children & Family Center – content for a display on the Center’s first 200 years.
Boss Shepherd’s restaurant (since closed) – content for two large graphic wall installations on Boss Shepherd’s world and the history of downtown DC’s theater scene.
Other Projects
The History of Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Oral histories filed with the DC Public Library
Bygone DC research for WETA-TV
James Reese Europe American Legion Post 5 archives.
The First 100 Years/Protecting the Public Interest 1913-2013 for the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia
Making D.C. History Awards for the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. – production assistance on a series of short videos on the 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 awardees
In addition, Prologue DC leads an important long-term project: Mapping Segregation in Washington DC. The goal of this effort is to display–through interactive online maps–the historic segregation of Washington’s housing, as well as its schools, playgrounds and other public spaces. See also our Facebook page, for project updates.
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