District of Columbia Archives

For the archives of the United States Federal government in the District of Columbia, see National Archives Building.
District of Columbia Office of Public Records Management, Archival Administration, and Library of Governmental Information
Agency overview
FormedSeptember 5, 1985 (1985-09-05)
TypePublic Records Repository
HeadquartersDistrict Records Center, 1300 Naylor Ct NW, Washington, DC 20001
38°54′28″N 77°01′29″W / 38.907869°N 77.024629°W / 38.907869; -77.024629
Agency executive
  • [vacant], Public Records Administrator
Parent agencySecretary of the District of Columbia
Websitehttps://os.dc.gov/page/office-public-records-and-archives

The District of Columbia Archives, formally, the Office of Public Records Management, Archival Administration, and Library of Governmental Information, is the state-level archives of the District of Columbia.[1] Its principal archival holdings reside in a converted stable in the Blagden Alley-Naylor Court Historic District and its much larger collection of retained records sit in leased space at the Washington National Records Center and in various D.C. government office buildings.

In its facilities, the D.C. Archives holds vital records on millions of individuals, many notable. The archives hold the original wills of Dolley Madison, Francis Scott Key, Frederick Douglass, Henry Adams, Woodrow Wilson, Alexander Graham Bell and Louis D. Brandeis.[2] It similarly preserves Mildred and Richard Loving's marriage certificate, Duke Ellington's birth certificate, and the Architectural registration for Chloethiel Woodard Smith.[3][4]

The state of the current records facility and operations has been described as "decrepit" and "overcrowded."[2][5]

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