On November 14th, the DC Preservation League, and Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC, an international law firm dedicated to protecting historic places and cultural heritage, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking an emergency injunction to prevent any federal action to alter the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (“EEOB”) until the Administration complies with the procedural requirements of federal preservation and environmental law. 

The complaint can be read in full here.


EEOB was built as The State, War, and Navy Building between 1871 and 1888, based on designs by architect Alfred B. Mullett, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971. The building is sited within the Lafayette Square Historic District, the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site, and within the locally designated Financial Historic District. Any ill-advised alteration will have a lasting impact on the historic integrity of the EEOB and the character of the surrounding historic resources.?

Read the full press release on the Cultural Heritage Partners Website.?

Press: Preservationists Sue Trump over plans to paint Eisenhower building, - The Washington Post, November 14, 2025?.