Nine inoperative call boxes will be getting a makeover within the next year.
The defunct communication devices number in the hundreds around the District and were formerly used to call fire and police services from any location in the city. But now, local artist and former adjunct professor Charles Bergen is refurbishing the fixtures around downtown D.C. sidewalks to commemorate prominent women in D.C. history like former Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell.
