Posts by Katie Williams
Preserving Community Stories with Verbal Gymnastics
In March, The L’Enfant Trust hosted two nights of “Community Voices: Historic Preservation in Anacostia,” an interactive playback theater performance and community event with Verbal Gymnastics Playback Theatre Company. Verbal Gymnastics captures the narratives of residents in rapidly changing communities “East of the River” in Washington, DC using innovative forms of theater/storytelling to foster meaningful…
Read MoreHow a Local Preservationist is Protecting Anacostia’s Heritage
May 1, 2023 This year’s Preservation Month theme of “People Saving Places” is a national high-five to everyone doing the great work of saving places—in ways big and small—and inspiring others to do the same. Read our interview below with Greta Fuller, Co-President of the Historic Anacostia Preservation Society and Board member of DC Preservation…
Read MoreThe L’Enfant Trust Receives 2023 HPRP Grant from The 1772 Foundation
The L’Enfant Trust (Trust) is pleased to announce the organization was awarded a $100,000 grant from The 1772 Foundation for 2023. The grant will support general construction planning costs associated with the Trust’s upcoming rehabilitation of 1220 Maple View Place, SE (Big Green) for workforce housing. The Trust’s Historic Properties Redevelopment Program (HPRP) would not…
Read MoreL’Enfant Trust Awarded Preservation Fund Grant from National Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington, DC – The L’Enfant Trust is pleased to announce the organization was awarded a $5,000 grant from The National Trust Preservation Fund, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s small dollar grant program. The funding will be used to obtain a structural conditions assessment and to develop preliminary stabilization designs for “Big Green,” a 1902…
Read MoreL’Enfant Trust Awarded Grant from Moe Family Fund for Statewide and Local Partners of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington, DC – The L’Enfant Trust (“Trust”) is pleased to announce the organization was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Moe Family Fund for Statewide and Local Partners of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The grant will support in part the creation of a strategic development plan for the Trust’s Historic Properties Redevelopment Program…
Read MoreLessons from the Pandemic: Managing the Nation’s Largest Easement Program
The L’Enfant Trust is the nation’s largest preservation easement-holder, protecting more than 1,150 historic properties and surrounding open space across Washington, D.C. To maintain the integrity of our easement program and continue to protect the rich and varied architectural fabric of DC’s historic streetscapes, we conduct an annual photographic inspection of each of our easemented…
Read MoreThe L’Enfant Trust Awarded Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
The L’Enfant Trust (“Trust”) is pleased to announce the award of a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (“CAH”) in the amount of $20,290.00. The grant supports the Trust’s committed rental expenses during the CAH’s Fiscal Year 2022 (October 2021 – September 2022). The generous support from CAH will help…
Read MoreTrust’s Former Rehabilitation Project, “Little Green”, Up for Sale for the First Time in 8 Years!
1347 Maple View Place, SE (“Little Green”), one of The L’Enfant Trust’s former rehabilitation projects in Historic Anacostia, is now for sale for the first time in eight years since we first sold it in 2014. 1347 Maple View Place, SE was a long vacant, two-story, Queen-Anne style house in the Anacostia Historic District on…
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