The team restoring the Franklin School into an interactive language arts museum restarted the $35 million renovation Jan. 2, roughly four months after it was slapped with a stop-work order for illegally removing historic elements from the protected structure.
D.C. lifted the stop-work order Dec. 27 after the developer behind the Planet Word museum agreed to a mitigation plan requiring it to replicate historic wainscoting and other architectural features it removed and destroyed without permission.
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