Workshop – Removing Racial Covenants

Historic Takoma has launched a project to understand and address the history of racially restrictive covenants in the City of Takoma Park, Maryland. The Takoma Park Covenants Project consists of three principal components: (1) Locating properties with racially restrictive covenants, (2) Assisting property owners with removing those covenants, and (3) Maintaining a register of properties that have had racially restrictive covenants removed.

This workshop will explain where racial covenants have been found in Takoma Park and the process property owners can follow to remove them. Details about racial covenants in Takoma Park can be found on our Takoma Park Covenants Project page.

Historic Takoma has prepared a Guide for submitting the paperwork necessary to remove a racial covenant from a deed. Participants in the workshop may want to review the guide in advance.

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Montgomery Preservation Awards – 2022

The annual Montgomery Preservation Awards for 2022 recognized two projects in Takoma Park. James and Dale Sloan were recognized for the sensitive renovation and enlargement of their early 20th-century bungalow in the Historic District of Takoma Park (on Maple Avenue). The County Executive’s Award went to Historic Takoma’s African-American Oral History Project for its efforts to preserve and share memories of life in the Black community through interviews and production of three videos.

Read more about the 2022 Awards at Montgomery Preservation’s website.

Watch the 2022 awards ceremony, held in October of 2023.

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