Bill Barrett, Chris Earnshaw, and Joseph Mills—three premier chroniclers of mid- to late-20th-century Washington— examine the streets of downtown D.C. in DISTRICT II. The exhibition of photographs of the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s opens Thursday, September 29, 2016 with a reception from 6-8pm.
Presented by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. in the historic Carnegie Library in Mt. Vernon Square, District II explores several decades of architectural and social change in the heart of t...
Bill Barrett, Chris Earnshaw, and Joseph Mills—three premier chroniclers of mid- to late-20th-century Washington— examine the streets of downtown D.C. in DISTRICT II. The exhibition of photographs of the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s opens Thursday, September 29, 2016 with a reception from 6-8pm.
Presented by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. in the historic Carnegie Library in Mt. Vernon Square, District II explores several decades of architectural and social change in the heart of the Nation’s Capital, from the majesty of the McGill building, to storefronts exclaiming TOPLESS GO GO, to sleeping street denizens and the aching beauty of respectable rooming houses turned less-so flophouses slated for the wrecking ball.
DISTRICT II provides Washingtonians and visitors alike a historic context through which to experience contemporary life in the neighborhoods surrounding the exhibition space. Displaying choice examples from the historic collections of the Historical Society, as well as significant loans from the artists, the exhibition includes never-before-exhibited scenes captured by Barrett, Earnshaw and Mills through the decades along with historical notes on the development, destruction, reuse and adaptation of buildings and public spaces in downtown D.C. over an approximately fifty-year period.
