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The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, named after former United States President Ronald Reagan, is located in downtown Washington, D.C., and was the first federal building in Washington designed for both governmental and private sector purposes. Each of the organizations located in the Pennsylvania Avenue building are ...
St. Elizabeths Hospital. / 38.85083°N 76.99444°W / 38.85083; -76.99444. St. Elizabeths Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Southeast Washington, D.C. operated by the District of Columbia Department of Mental Health. The hospital opened in 1855 under the name Government Hospital for the Insane, [4] the first federally operated ...
Construction. Commissioned. 1791. Completion. 1941. Independence Avenue is a major east-west street in the southwest and southeast quadrants of the city of Washington, D.C., in the United States, running just south of the United States Capitol. Originally named South B Street, Independence Avenue SW was constructed between 1791 and 1823.
Private residences and embassies located on Massachusetts Avenue between 22nd Street and Sheridan Circle. The Indian Embassy building with the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial in the foreground. Embassy Row is the informal name for a section of Northwest Washington, D.C., with a high concentration of embassies, diplomatic missions, and diplomatic ...
Cannon House Office Building. / 38.88694°N 77.00694°W / 38.88694; -77.00694. The Cannon House Office Building, often called the " Old House Office Building ", completed in 1908, is the oldest office building of the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. A significant example of the Beaux-Arts style of architecture, it occupies a ...
The Washington Depot or New Jersey Avenue Station was a train station located in Northwest Washington, D.C., a block north of the Capitol. The train station was also called the B&O Depot as it was served by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It operated from April 1851 until October 26, 1907, when Union Station commenced operation.
October 15, 1966 [3][4] Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Siteis a National Historic Sitein the city of Washington, D.C.Established on September 30, 1965, the site is roughly bounded by Constitution Avenue, 15th Street NW, F Street NW, and 3rd Street NW. The historic district includes a number of culturally, aesthetically, and historically ...
McCune–Reischauer. Chu Miguk Taehanmin'guk taesagwan. The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of South Korea to the United States. Its main chancery is located at 2450 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. [1] The current ambassador is Cho Hyun-dong.