The Bond Bread Factory on Georgia Avenue could soon be razed.

The D.C. Preservation League today published its annual list of the city’s most endangered places, those that are deemed to be most threatened by demolition, neglect, or inappropriate alteration.

This year’s list—the organization’s eighth—includes the Bond Bread Factory (2146 Georgia Avenue, NW), Alexander Crummell School (1900 Gallaudet, NE), Mount Zion Cemetery/Female Union Band Cemetery (27th and Q Streets, NW), Old Thai Embassy (2300 Kalorama Road, NW), Washington Canoe Club (3700 Water Street, NW), and the Watchman’s Lodge and Tower (Donaldson Place, NW).

At least one site on the list is currently endangered of being razed, while another recently won a temporary reprieve of sorts. Last week the D.C. Council approved an $11 million tax abatement for the Howard Town Center, a multi-use development located on the exact spot on Georgia Avenue currently occupied by the Bond Bread Factory. Under existing plans, the old factory—which dates back to 1930—will be demolished.

As for the Crummell School, yesterday a D.C. judge issued an injunction against the city’s plans to park charter buses in a parking lot next to the historic school. Still, nothing is yet being planned for the school itself, which celebrated its centennial yesterday.

As for the other sites, many are simply suffering from decay by neglect. In the case of the Old Thai Embassy, there’s not really much D.C. can do—the building is property of the Thai government, after all. As for the Washington Canoe Club, the National Park Service, which owns the land the club is on, isn’t keen on repairing the old structure.

The organization says that it hopes that the list raises awareness and saves the sites from being substantially altered or demolished. In the past years some of the sites it has included have been rehabilitated, including the Georgetown streetcar tracks and the Howard Theatre. Others, though—like the Third Church of Christ, Scientist—will soon be gone.

2012 MEP Program