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Side Streets and Out of Town
Washington, D.C. - Site Streets
# Folger Shakepear Library and John Adams Building - Located behind the Library of Congress on 2nd Street.
# James Madison Memorial Building - Located near the Capitol South metro station between E Street and Independence Avenue.
# Union Station and the National Postal Museum - North of the U.S. Capitol on Massachusetts Avenue.
# Sewell Belmont House National Historic Site - North of the U.S. Supreme Court.
# National Building Museum - Located in the old Pension building, F Street between 4th and 5th Streets.
# Newseum - For all those news junkies out there. A recent addition to the Washington museum landscape, it is located along Pennsylvania Avenue near the National Gallery of Art.
# National Archives - Just off the mall behind the National Sculpture Garden.
# U.S. Navy and Naval Heritage Center - Halfway between the U.S. Capitol and the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue.
# Reynolds Center: American Art Museum Portrait Gallery and International Spy Museum - Located on F Street near the Verizon Center.
# Ford's Theatre National Historic Site and House Where Lincoln Died - Temporarily closed for renovation. To reopen 2009.
# Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Research Library - Next to the Washington Convention Center.
# Old Post Office Tower and D.C. Visitor Center - Located along Pennsylvania Avenue between 10th and 14th Streets.
# Department of the Interior Museum - E Street and 18th Street.
# Renwick Gallery, Decatur House, Explorers Hall, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site - North of the White House.
# John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - North of the Lincoln Memorial along the Potomac River.
# Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park - In Georgetown section of the city and along the Potomac River. This park continues for many miles into Maryland, Virginia, and beyond.
Outside the City
A number of historic sites exist outside downtown Washington, from the area of Arlington National Cemetery to Mount Vernon and beyond. Some of these sites are accessible using the NPS concessionaire Tourmobile service. An additional fee is required for a few of them.West of the City - Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, Lady Bird Johnson Park, LBJ Memorial Grove, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington House - The Robert E. Lee Memorial, and the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial. In Chantilly, Virginia, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum. In Manassas, Manassas National Military Park, commemorating the two Civil War battles of Bull Run.
South of the City - The Titanic Memorial and Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon is located 16 miles south of the city.
East of the City - Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Anacostia Museum.
North of the City - Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site, African-American Civil War Memorial, National Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park.
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Washington, D.C. On the National Mall
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt monument, Washington National Mall. |
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* Below the U.S. Capitol as you look down the mall
sits the Ulyssess S. Grant statue and the Capitol Reflecting
Pool. From 3rd Street to 14th Street, the National Mall is
predominantly an open grassy area with a few small structures;
including the Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden, plus several food
concessionaires. On both sides of the mall sit the Smithsonian
Institution Buildings and other museum discussed above. * Below 14the Street sit the National Mall and Memorial Parks. * Washington Monument, which requires timed tickets to climb. They are available on the east side of the monument. A ranger station and the Sylvan Theater are located nearby. * World War II Memorial - Sited between the Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool that leads to the Lincoln Memorial. It is the most recent addition to the mall and a great one as well. * Reflecting Pool runs from 17th Street to 23rd Street. * Constitution Gardens - Located to the north of the Reflecting Pool in a wooded area, the gardens include a Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence. * Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Located between the Constitution Gardens and the Lincoln Memorial. Ranger programs are held daily from 9:30 am to 8:30 am. The memorial also includes the Three Servicemen and Vietnam Women's Memorial. There is very little dedicated parking close to this memorial, except for street parking along Constitution Avenue and parking to the south of the Lincoln Memorial along Ohio Drive. * Korean War Memorial - Located on the south side of the reflecting pool near the Lincoln Memorial. * The Lincoln Memorial - In many ways known not only for its namesake, Abraham Lincoln, and his contributions to fighting the Civil War and ending slavery, but now as the site of the Civil Rights struggle, its marches, and the famous speech of Martin Luther King. King is to be memorialized with his own monument along the Tidal Basin in the future. |
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| Located on the north/south axis with the Washington Monument as the center of its cross sits the Jefferson Memorial at the southern end with the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue to the north. There is quite a bit in between, too, including the entire Tidal Basin area and President's Park. | |
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The White House - At the northernmost part of the National Mall,
between Lafayette Park and the Ellipse, the White House complex
includes a Visitor Center. Visitation of the White House itself
must be reserved in advance of your visit to Washington by contacting
your Congressional representative. * National Aquarium - Beside the Mall along 15th Street. * Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Naitonal Red Cross, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Organization of American States - These buildings sit across the Ellipse from the National Aquarium. * The Washington Monument * Forest Service Museum - Located along 15th street below the Washington Monument. * The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum * Bureau of Engraving and Printing * Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial - This recent addition to the Tidal Basin area is in one of the more remote locations in the park area, however, this has not stopped this Memorial from becoming one of the most popular spots in the area. The modest, low-slung structure sits within a grove of trees and follows the four terms of Roosevelt's presidency, including the controversial statue of FDR sitting in a wheelchair, which he was kept hidden from public during his tenure. * Thomas Jefferson Memorial - In classic style, this Memorial creates the southern terminal of the Tidal Basin axis and gleam across the water on sunny days. Parking for the memorial, which is an all day lot, resides south along Ohio Drive in East Potomac Park. * George Mason Memorial - Tucked between the Jefferson and the parking lots mentioned above.
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