The
Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc.
The Thurgood
Marshall Center for Service and Heritage is an innovative
community project located at 1816 12th Street, NW, in the heart of
the Shaw neighborhood in
Washington, DC which involves restoring a large vacant historic
building back to a community services center:
The project brings together at one welcoming location
the supportive programs, services, and guidance that will help families
and youth build better lives and a brighter future . . . overcoming
poverty and neglect.
The project preserves this National Historic Landmark
building for the benefit of neighborhoods, families, children, and youth
-- a building selected for the White House Millennium Council's Save
America's Treasures listing of 101 historic treasures.
A picture of the building as a YMCA
for the Shaw community in 1960's
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The project hs renovated and restored this once-vacant
but grand five-story (35,000 square foot) building and gymnasium as
the Thurgood Marshall Center by January 2000 and to have it again become
a focal point of the dynamic Shaw community in the center of Washington,
D.C.
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A picture of the building just prior to
construction in November 1998
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The project captures and portrays, through an interactive
Thurgood Marshall Center heritage, program the living stories of African
American leaders and communities struggling in the face of discrimination,
building lives not only of hope and survival, but also of achievement
and success.
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