Please note that only records with finding aids or box lists are listed here. Additional records may exist for your each subject identified.
Access restrictions may apply.
Records relating to buildings and property:
- Building permits, 1949-1955 (DCA-94-0005)
- Building permits, 1955-1958 (DCA-94-0005-1)
- Building permits, 1958-1962 (DCA-94-0005-2)
- Building permits, 1958-1978, numbered streets (DCA-94-0005-3)
- Building permits, 1958-1978, lettered streets (DCA-94-0005-3A)
- Building permits, 1976-1983 (DCA-04-0005-6)
- Building permits, 1984-1989 (DCA-94-0005-7)
- Building permits, 1990-1993 (DCA-94-0005-8)
- Building permits, 1994-1995 (DCA-94-0005-9)
- Building plans (DCA-94-0005-10 through DCA-94-0005-18)
- Project Files, Capital One Arena (then MCI Center), 1994-1998 (DCA-05-0002)
- Project Files, (former) Washington Convention Center, 1995-1997 (DCA-05-0003)
- Subject Files of Planning Director John Fondersmith, 1972-1999 (DCA-06-0004)
- Records of the Redevelopment Land Agency, 1965-1976 (DCA-90-0009)
- Shaw School Urban Renewal District Case Files, 1967-1968 (DCA-90-0010)
- Historic Preservation Review Board Hearing Transcripts, 1977-1995 (DCA-96-0002)
Records relating to the Office of the Mayor and operations of the executive branch:
- Minutes of the Board of Commissioners, 1953-1967 (DCA-90-0006)
- News Releases, 1967-1978 (DCA-91-0008)
- Subject Files of Mayor Walter Washington, 1961-1970 (DCA-93-0002)
- Subject Files of Deputy Mayor Thomas Fletcher, 1961-1970 (DCA-93-0003)
- Subject Files of Deputy Mayor Graham Wyatt, 1978-1972 (DCA-93-0014)
- Transcript reports of the Mayor Anthony A. Williams Transition Team, 1998 (DCA-00-0003)
- Records of the Control Board (DCA-02-0001)
- Budget books, FY1990-2000 (DCA-02-0003)
- Office of Constituent Services, 1991-1993 (DCA-05-0001)
- Subject files of Mary Wilmot, Office Manager in the Office of the Secretary, 1984-1986, 1991-1994 (DCA-05-0004)
- Office of Business and Economic Development, 1990-1997 (DCA-05-0005)
- Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Commission, 1986-1999 (DCA-05-0009)
- Records of Mayor Marion Barry (DCA-15-0006)
- Photographs from the Barry Administration (DCA-15-0007)
- Photographs from the Walter Washington Administration (DCA-15-0008)
- Records of Mayor Anthony Williams (DCA-16-0005)
- Briefing Books, Mayor Anthony Williams (DCA-16-0006)
Records of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions:
- ANC 1A, 1988-1994 (DCA-07-0002)
- ANC 2B, 1988-1994 (DCA-07-0002-1)
- ANC 3C, 1988-1994 (DCA-07-0002-2)
- ANC 3F, 1988-1994 (DCA-07-0002-5)
- ANC 6B, 1988-1994 (DCA-07-0002-7)
Records relating to infrastructure:
- Index to records of the Engineer Department, 1897-1953 (DCA-90-0008)
- Water Office, 1882-1905 (DCA-05-0008)
- Department of Sanitary Engineering, 1955-1970 (DCA-05-0008-1)
- Miscellaneous records of the District Department of Transportation, 1936-1989 (DCA-10-0008)
- Miscellaneous records of the District Department of Transportation, 1936-1989 (DCA-10-0009)
- Department of Health records related to Spring Valley, Riggs Park, and River Terrace (DCA-12-0007)
- Department of Public Works Management Files, prior to 1965 (DCA-14-0058)
Records relating to law enforcement and the justice system:
- Records of the Ellison Commission (study of the District’s criminal justice system), 1967-1973 (DCA-91-0009)
- Records of the Office of Emergency Preparedness relating to demonstrations, civil disturbances, and special events, 1965-1978 (DCA-91-0014)
Records useful for genealogy:
Collections of publications and reports:
- Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (DCA-00-0001)
- Department of Housing and Community Development (DCA-05-0010)
- Office of Planning (DCA-94-0011)
Other:
- Board meeting transcripts of the Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board, 1982-1996 (DCA-06-0003)
- Operations Files of the DC Bicentennial Commission, 1988-1990 (DCA-08-0001)
- Photographs, 1952-1990 (DCA-91-0003)