From 2000 until 2009, Cultural Tourism DC led “Art on Call”, a city-wide effort to restore Washington’s abandoned police and fire call boxes as neighborhood artistic icons. Cultural Tourism DC partnered with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the District Department of Transportation on this initiative. The project is now managed by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Art on call: DC’s historic call boxes transformed | DMV You Don’t Know
From 2000 to 2009, Art on Call refurbished 145 call boxes around the District, showcasing local artists.
DC, Art on Call Historical Markers
Historical markers that were installed in approximately 145 decommissioned call boxes in the District of Columbia by Cultural Tourism DC. Note that not all the markers issued by Cultural Tourism DC qualify for inclusion in the database, so we would not have all 145.