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Number of places: 1250 Displaying closest 50   Display all 1250 Other Unclassified Places around Lockkeepers House, DC 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". Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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.; Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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." Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions Discus Thrower (Washington, D.C.) 0.4 miles or 0.7 km -> NorthWest Type: ArtworkDiscus Thrower is a bronze sculpture in Washington, D.C. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions Gwenfritz 0.4 miles or 0.6 km -> East Type: ArtworkGwenfritz is a painted steel abstract stabile, by Alexander Calder. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions 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. Full Article - Map and Directions Wikipedia article text is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Article index updated: 12 December 2014.

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