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- General José Gervasio Artigas
0.1 miles or 0.2 km -> West Type: UnclassifiedGeneral
Jose Gervasio Artigas is a bronze statue, in Washington, DC, capital of
the United States, at the intersection of Constitution Avenue and
Virginia Avenue, at 18th Street. It is one of a set called the Statues
of the Liberators. José Artigas was a 19th-century general, sometimes
called "the father of Uruguayan independence".
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- Memorial Continental Hall
0.1 miles or 0.2 km -> NorthWest Type: UnclassifiedMemorial
Continental Hall is owned & operated by the Daughters of the
American Revolution. It also serves as the organizations National
Society headquarters. Memorial Continental Hall is located alongside DAR
Constitution Hall, connected by a third building that houses the DAR
Museum. It was also the host of the Washington Naval Conference.
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- Jefferson Pier
0.2 miles or 0.4 km -> SouthEast Type: UnclassifiedJefferson
Pier, Jefferson Stone, or the Jefferson Pier Stone, in Washington,
D.C., marks the second prime meridian of the United States even though
it was never officially recognized, either by presidential proclamation
or by a resolution or act of Congress. The stone is on the National Mall
almost due south of the center of the White House and the midline of
16th Street, NW, about due west of the center of the United States
Capitol building, almost due north of the center of the Jefferson
Memorial and 391 ft WNW of the center of the Washington Monument.;
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- Equestrian of Simón Bolívar
0.2 miles or 0.3 km -> NorthWest Type: LandmarkEquestrian
of Simón Bolívar is a public artwork by American artist Felix de
Weldon. The monument is located at Virginia Avenue NW, 18th Street NW,
and C Street NW near the United States Department of Interior and the
Pan American Union building of the Organization of American States.
Equestrian of Simón Bolívar was originally surveyed as part of the
Smithsonians Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1993. The monument is an
equestrian statue of the Venezuelan military and political leader Simón
Bolívar.
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- Armenian Earthquake (Sogoyan)
0.2 miles or 0.4 km -> North Type: ArtworkArmenian
Earthquake is a bronze sculpture by Frederic Sogoyan. It expresses the
gratitude at the aid provided following the 1988 Spitak earthquake.
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- Canova Lions
0.2 miles or 0.4 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
Canova Lions, located in front of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., are copies of a pair of lions sculpted by Antonio
Canova in 1792 for the tomb of Pope Clement XIII in St Peters in Rome.
The originals were sculpted of marble, these were cast in bronze from
molds of the originals. The pieces were installed in 1860.
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- Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
0.2 miles or 0.3 km -> West Type: LandmarkThe
Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence is a
memorial depicting the signatures of the original 56 signatories to the
United States Declaration of Independence. It is located in the
Constitution Gardens on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
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- U.S. Capitol Gatehouses and Gateposts
0.3 miles or 0.5 km -> East Type: UnclassifiedThe
U.S. Capitol Gatehouses and Gateposts — designed circa 1827 by
celebrated architect Charles Bulfinch — originally stood on the grounds
of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Two of the gatehouses
are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in their new
locations.
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- Boy Scout Memorial
0.3 miles or 0.5 km -> NorthEast Type: ArtworkThe
Boy Scout Memorial is a public artwork by American sculptor Donald De
Lue, located at The Ellipse in Washington, D.C., United States. This
sculpture was surveyed in 1993 as part of the Smithsonians Save Outdoor
Sculpture! program. The Boy Scout Memorial serves as a tribute to the
Boy Scouts of America.
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- Presidential Emergency Operations Center
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
Presidents Emergency Operations Center is a structure that lies beneath
the East Wing of the White House in the United States. Originally
constructed for President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, it
is presumed to be designed to withstand all but direct nuclear blasts
and is likely to be the Presidents evacuation point in the event of an
incoming ICBM. It is not in the same location as the Situation Room,
which is in the basement of the West Wing. However, it does possess
several televisions, telephones and a communications system to
coordinate with other government entities during an emergency. During a
breach of White House security, to include P-56 airspace violators, the
President and other protectees will be relocated to the executive
briefing room, next to the PEOC. Day to day, the PEOC is manned around
the clock by joint service military officers and NCOs.
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- Oscar Straus Memorial
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> East Type: LandmarkThe
Oscar S. Straus Memorial in Washington, D.C., commemorates the
accomplishments of the first Jew to serve in the cabinet of a U.S.
president. Oscar Solomon Straus served as Secretary of Commerce and
Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. The memorial
is a marble fountain located in the Federal Triangle on 14th Street
between Pennsylvania Avenue and Constitution Avenue, Northwest,
Washington, D.C. It is located in front of the Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade Center.
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- West Wing
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
West Wing, also known as the Executive Office Building, houses the
offices of the President of the United States. Part of the White House
Complex, it contains the Oval Office,; the Cabinet Room, the Situation
Room, and the Roosevelt Room.
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- Vietnam Women's Memorial
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> West Type: LandmarkFull Article - Map and Directions
- Eccles Building
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> West Type: UnclassifiedThe
Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building houses the main
offices of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. It is
located at 20th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., in Washington,
D.C. The building, designed in the stripped classicism style, was
designed by Paul Philippe Cret and completed in 1937. President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt dedicated the building on October 20, 1937.
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- Resolute desk
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
Resolute desk is a large, nineteenth-century partners desk often chosen
by presidents of the United States for use in the White House Oval
Office as the Oval Office desk. It was a gift from Queen Victoria to
President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the timbers of
the British Arctic Exploration ship. Franklin Roosevelt had a small door
built for the gap to prevent people from seeing his leg braces. Many
presidents since Hayes have used the desk at various locations in the
White House, but it was Jackie Kennedy who first brought the desk into
the Oval Office in 1961 for President John F. Kennedy. It was removed
from the White House only once, after the assassination of President
Kennedy in 1963, when President Johnson allowed the desk to go on a
traveling exhibition with the Kennedy Presidential Library. After this
it was on display in the Smithsonian Institution. President Jimmy Carter
brought the desk back to the Oval Office, where Presidents Ronald
Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush used it. It is currently in use
by President Barack Obama.
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- East Room
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
East Room is an events and reception room in the White House, the home
of the President of the United States. The largest room in the Executive
Mansion, it is used for dances, receptions, press conferences,
ceremonies, concerts, and banquets. The East Room was one of the last
rooms to be finished and decorated, and it has undergone substantial
redecoration over the past two centuries. Since 1964, the Committee for
the Preservation of the White House has, by executive order, advised the
President of the United States and First Lady of the United States on
the decor, preservation, and conservation of the East Room and other
public rooms at the White House.
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- Red Room (White House)
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkThe
Red Room is one of three state parlors on the State Floor in the White
House, the home of the President of the United States. The room has
served as a parlor and music room, and recent presidents have held small
dinner parties in it. It has been traditionally decorated in shades of
red.
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- Green Room (White House)
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkThe
Green Room is one of three state parlors on the first floor in the
White House, the home of the President of the United States. It is used
for small receptions and teas. During a state dinner, guests are served
cocktails in the three state parlors before the president, first lady,
and visiting head of state descend the Grand Staircase for dinner. The
room is traditionally decorated in shades of green.
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- State Dining Room
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
State Dining Room is the larger of two dining rooms on the State Floor
of the White House, the home of the President of the United States. It
is used for receptions, luncheons, and larger formal dinners called
state dinners for visiting heads of state on state visits. The room
seats 140 guests. The room measures approximately 48 feet by 36 feet. It
has six doors leading to a butlers pantry, the Family Dining Room,
Cross Hall, and Red Room, and the West Terrace. During the Andrew
Jackson administration the room came to be formally called the "State
Dining Room."
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- Diplomatic Reception Room (White House)
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
Diplomatic Reception Room is one of three oval rooms in the residence
of the White House, the official home of the President of the United
States. It is located on the Ground Floor and is used as an entrance
from the South Lawn, and a reception room for foreign ambassadors to
present their credentials, a ceremony formerly conducted in the Blue
Room. The room is the point of entry to the White House for a visiting
head of state following the State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn.
The room has four doors, which lead to the Map Room, the Center Hall,
the China Room, and a vestibule that leads to the South Lawn.
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- Map Room (White House)
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe Map Room is a room on the ground floor of the White House, the official home of the President of the United States.
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- Cross Hall
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkThe
Cross Hall is a broad hallway on the first floor in the White House,
the official residence of the President of the United States. It runs
east to west connecting the State Dining Room with the East Room. The
room is used for receiving lines following a State Arrival Ceremony on
the South Lawn, or a procession of the President and a visiting head of
state and their spouses.
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- East Wing
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: UnclassifiedThe
East Wing is a part of the White House Complex. It is a two-story
structure on the east side of the White House Executive Residence, the
home of the President of the United States. While the West Wing
generally serves the president, the East Wing serves as office space for
the First Lady and her staff, including the White House Social
Secretary, White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office and
correspondence staff. The East Wing also includes the White House
theater, the visitors entrance, and the East Colonnade, a corridor
connecting the body of the East Wing to the residence. Social visitors
to the White House usually enter in the East Wing.
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- Lincoln Bedroom
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkThe
Lincoln Bedroom is located in the southeast corner of the second floor
of the White House, part of a guest suite that includes the Lincoln
Sitting Room. The rooms are named for Abraham Lincoln, and the room that
was in this location—before the extensive 1948–1952 renovation—was used
by President Lincoln as an office.
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- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkThe
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room is a small theater in the West Wing
of the White House where the White House Press Secretary gives daily
briefings to the news media and the President of the United States
sometimes addresses the press and the American nation. It is located
between the workspace assigned to the White House press corps and the
office of the Press Secretary.
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- White House Complex
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
White House Complex is the designation of the three principal
structures of the White House and the adjoining outdoor ceremonial
areas, which, along with the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, serve
as the seat of the executive branch of United States government. The
structural components include the Executive Residence, where the First
Family resides; the West Wing, the location of the Oval Office, Cabinet
Room, and Roosevelt Room; and the East Wing, which houses the offices of
the First Lady and the White House Social Secretary, and also provides
public access to the State Rooms of the Executive Residence for tours
and social events.
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- Jacqueline Kennedy Garden
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkThe
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden is located at the White House south of the
East Colonnade. The garden balances the Rose Garden on the west side of
the White House Complex.
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- Cabinet Room (White House)
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
Cabinet Room is the meeting room for the cabinet secretaries and
advisors serving the President of the United States. The body is defined
as the United States Cabinet. The Cabinet Room is located in the West
Wing of the White House Complex, adjoining the Oval Office, and looks
out upon the White House Rose Garden.
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- North Lawn (White House)
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
North Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, is bordered on the
north by Pennsylvania Avenue with a wide view of the mansion, and is
screened by dense plantings on the east from East Executive Drive and
the Treasury Building, and on the west from West Executive Drive and the
Old Executive Office Building. Because it is bordered by Pennsylvania
Avenue, the White Houses official street address, the North Lawn is
sometimes described as the front lawn.
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- South Lawn (White House)
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkThe
South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, is located directly
south of the mansion, and is bordered on the east by East Executive
Drive and the Treasury Building, and on the west by West Executive Drive
and the Old Executive Office Building, and along its curved southern
perimeter by South Executive Drive and a large circular public lawn
called The Ellipse. Since the address of the White House is 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and the North Lawn faces Pennsylvania Avenue,
the South Lawn is sometimes described as the back lawn of the White
House.
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- Indian Treaty Room
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> North Type: UnclassifiedFull Article - Map and Directions
- East Sitting Hall
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkThe
East Sitting Hall is located on the second floor of the White House,
home of the President of the United States. First used as a reception
room for guests of the president, it is now a family parlor with access
to the east rooms on the second floor.
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- Queens' Sitting Room
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkFull Article - Map and Directions
- Second Floor Center Hall (White House)
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
Center Hall is a broad central hallway on the second floor of the White
House, home of the President of the United States. It runs east to west
connecting the East Sitting Hall with the West Sitting Hall. It allows
access to the elevator vestibule, East and West Bedrooms, the Grand
Staircase, Yellow Oval Room, the first familys private living room, and
the presidents bedroom.
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- West Sitting Hall
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
West Sitting Hall is located on the second floor of the White House,
home of the President of the United States. The room is entered from the
second floor Center Hall on the east side of the room. The room
features a large lunette window on the west wall looks out upon the West
Colonnade, the West Wing, and the Old Executive Office Building. The
room is used by first families as a less formal living room than the
Yellow Oval Room.
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- White House basement
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
basement of the White House, the Washington, D.C. residence and
workplace of the President of the United States, is located under the
North Portico and includes the White House carpenters shop, engineers
shop, flower shop,; and dentist office, among other areas.
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- Truman Balcony
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
Truman Balcony is the second-floor balcony of the Executive Residence
of the White House, which overlooks the south lawn. It was completed in
March 1948, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
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- John J. Pershing General of the Armies
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: LandmarkJohn
J. Pershing General of the Armies, is a public artwork by American
artist Robert White, located at Pershing Park in Washington, D.C.,
United States. John J. Pershing General of the Armies was originally
surveyed as part of the Smithsonians Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in
1994. The monument is a tribute to United States Army general John J.
Pershing.
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- Discus Thrower (Washington, D.C.)
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthWest Type: ArtworkDiscus Thrower is a bronze sculpture in Washington, D.C.
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- Alexander Hamilton (Fraser)
0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthEast Type: ArtworkA
bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton by James Earle Fraser was dedicated
on May 17, 1923, and can be found on the south patio of the U.S.
Treasury Building in Washington D.C.
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- Gwenfritz
0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> East Type: ArtworkGwenfritz is a painted steel abstract stabile, by Alexander Calder.
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- The Three Soldiers
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> West Type: LandmarkThe
Three Soldiers is a bronze statue on the Washington, DC National Mall
commemorating the Vietnam War. It was created and designed to complement
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, by adding a more traditional component
to the Memorial.
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- Federal Triangle
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> East Type: UnclassifiedThe
Federal Triangle is a triangular area in Washington, D.C. formed by
15th Street NW, Constitution Avenue NW, Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and E
Street NW. Federal Triangle is occupied by 10 large city and federal
office buildings, all of which are part of the Pennsylvania Avenue
National Historic Site. Seven of the buildings in Federal Triangle were
built by the U.S. federal government in the early and mid-1930s as part
of a coordinated construction plan that has been called "one of the
greatest building projects ever undertaken" and all seven buildings are
now designated as architecturally historic. The Federal Triangle
Washington Metro station serves Federal Triangle and the surrounding
area.
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- Jackson Place
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> North Type: LandmarkJackson
Place is a Washington, D.C. street located across from the White House
and forming the western border of Lafayette Square between Pennsylvania
Avenue and H Street, NW, beginning just south of Connecticut Avenue.
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- American Peace Society house
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> North Type: UnclassifiedAmerican
Peace Society House is a Late Victorian house that was the headquarters
of the American Peace Society from 1911 to 1948.
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- Oscar W. Underwood House
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> NorthWest Type: UnclassifiedThe
Oscar W. Underwood House, also known as the Art Department Building,
George Washington University or the Washington College of Law, is a
historic building located at 2000 G Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood.
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- White House Conference Center
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
White House Conference Center is an annex building of the White House
in Washington, D.C. The Colonial Revival building is located across
Pennsylvania Avenue at 726 Jackson Place and was used as a temporary
press location during remodeling of the James S. Brady Press Briefing
Room from August 2006 to June 2007.
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- Trowbridge House
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
Trowbridge House is an historic town house, adjacent to the Blair House
on Lafayette Park across the street from the Old Executive Office
Building of the White House. For many years, the structure was used for
government offices.
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- U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> North Type: LandmarkThe
United States Global Change Research Information Office or GCRIO
provides access to data and information on climate change research and
global change-related educational resources on behalf of the various US
Federal Agencies that are involved in the US Global Change Research
Program. The GCRIO handles requests for documents related to USCRP. They
also have outreach services to both domestic and international target
audiences in an effort to showcase relevant activities and results of
the US Global Change Research Program and to help increase the awareness
of the availability of data and information resources of the
participating Federal Agencies.
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- Albert Gallatin (Fraser)
0.5 miles or 0.8 km -> NorthEast Type: ArtworkAlbert
Gallatin is a bronze statue by James Earle Fraser. It is located north
of the Treasury Building, at 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
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