Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, D.C.

Kim Prothro Williams is an architectural historian with the D.C. Historic Preservation Office. For more than twenty-five years, she has been researching and writing about historic buildings and communities in D.C., Virginia and Maryland, with her primary focus being to evaluate buildings for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Kim is a published author of books, articles and heritage trail brochures dealing with the built environment. Two of her books, “Chevy Chase: A Home Suburb for the Nation’s Capital” and “Pride of Place: Rural Residences of Fauquier County, Virginia,” address the transformation of the agricultural landscape. Her most recent title is “Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, D.C.,” which explores the rural remnants of the nation’s capital.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/farm-team-imagine-grapes-on-the-mall-and-corn-across-the-district/2018/05/01/a02d4962-4d4a-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?utm_term=.933dc58173d5