Uline Arena

Interior, Uline Arena.

Whereas for me this is a pretty old story, since the nomination was filed in June 2003, the fact that the building was finally landmarked last month seems to be of a great deal of interest.

Marc Fisher mentioned it in his Washington Post blog, "Saved: D.C.'s Beatles Connection." There was a story, "Historic Parking Garage Finally Gets Recognition," (but the headline is wrong--it's used for parking now, but that isn't its historic use) by Mark Segraves on WTOP News (Note that I added WTOP's archive of DC stories to the "Regional Media" section of links in the right sidebar.)

Extant seats in the south of the building. The decay is more interesting when the photo is bigger (click through for larger images).

It made it onto Preservation Online, the online companion to the magazine published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Site of Beatles' First U.S. Concert Saved." And in Voice of the Hill, the community newspaper; "Uline Named a Historic Landmark." And on the Express blog as well, "A Rare Concrete Roof."

And one of these days, there will be a local tv news story too.
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Yes, I led the effort, but many people assisted in the preparation and defense of this nomination: David Bell (ex-president of the DC Preservation League, organizing); Tanya Callaway (photo research); Justine Christianson (great research on the architectural significance of the building, creation of a presentation, publication of a journal article about the Uline Arena in Washington History, public presentations); Farleigh Earhart (then president of the DC Preservation League, took the public abuse); Kate Farnham (got Justine involved); Krista Gebbia (then director of DCPL, filing the nomination); Alan Kimber (helped write the nomination, research); Drew Ronneberg (research); Jim Shulman (outreach and other); Sheila White (outreach); and the DCPL board members who agreed that the nomination was worthy of being filed.

In writing the nomination, I relied heavily on the thematic survey of Warehouses commissioned by the DC Historic Preservation Officer in the early 1990s as well as the context statement written by Nancy Schwartz for the Capitol Hill North/Near Northeast Social and Cultural History Study from 2001-2.

After the nomination was filed DC Historic Preservation Office staff members Timothy Dennee handled the application and all that was required to bring the hearing forward, and Patsy Fletcher helped deal with some of the contentious community meetings.

THANK YOU!
The concrete ribs that resulted from the Zeiss-Dywidag construction process are visible in this photo.

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