There’s something new on Seventh Street NW this week, and it’s not just the line outside the Christmas bar. Look down: The sidewalk bears a few plaques that honor musicians in the Howard Theatre Walk of Fame.

Though construction of the medallions began this week, the project has been in the works since 2008, says Jeffrey Scott, chief of external affairs at the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, as a way “to memorialize and recognize different artists and musicians that have performed at Howard over past century.” It’s the result of a partnership with the Office of the Deputy Mayor of Planning and Economic Development and Cultural Tourism DC, a nonprofit that promotes the arts across the District. (They’re the ones behind those neighborhood heritage trails.) Those three organizations pitched in $400,000 for the project’s budget.

A panel of representatives from those groups, plus a few Shaw and LeDroit Park leaders, selected a class of 15 musicians who have performed at the theater since it first opened in 1910, including Pearl Bailey, Chuck Brown, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

After a call for artists in 2016, D.C.-based design firm Hackreative along with sculptors Jay Coleman and Joanna Blake were selected to design the medallions. Their pieces draw design elements from the architecture of the Howard Theatre itself, including the braided arch and banner on the building’s sign, and the block frame around the marquee.

When all the plaques are installed, which Scott says should be by the end of the month, they will make a path starting north from Seventh and S streets NW, and rounding the corner onto T Street before ending at the Howard Theatre. They’ll be bookended by upright signs that will detail the history of the theater and the artists represented.