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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. / 38.89861°N 77.02472°W / 38.89861; -77.02472. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library ( MLKML) is the central facility of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL), constructed and named in honor of the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Capital One Arena. / 38.89806°N 77.02083°W / 38.89806; -77.02083. Capital One Arena is an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Located in the Chinatown section of the larger Penn Quarter neighborhood, the arena sits atop the Gallery Place rapid transit station of the Washington Metro. The arena was opened on December 2, 1997, as MCI ...
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
Washington Power ( NLL) (2002) The Capital Centre (later USAir Arena and US Airways Arena) was an indoor arena in the eastern United States, located in Landover, Maryland, a suburb east of Washington, D.C. [ 5][ 6] The seating capacity was 18,756 for basketball and 18,130 for hockey . Opened in late 1973, it closed in March 2002, and was ...
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens. / 38.9437; -77.0526. Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., United States. The former residence of businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood is known for its large decorative arts collection that focuses heavily on ...
Washington residents’ per-capita spending on live entertainment outpaces that of many other major U.S. cities and since 2015, StubHub has sold nearly 5 million tickets in Washington and reaped ...
Carnegie Library of Washington D.C. Mount Vernon Sq., 8th and K Streets, NW. / 38.9026000°N 77.0229000°W / 38.9026000; -77.0229000. The Carnegie Library of Washington D.C., also known as Central Public Library, now known as the Apple Carnegie Library, is situated in Mount Vernon Square, Washington, D.C.
Budget. $58 Million [ 1 ] Director. Richard Reyes-Gavilan [ 2 ] Website. www .dclibrary .org. The District of Columbia Public Library ( DCPL) is the public library system for Washington, D.C. The system includes 26 individual libraries including Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, DCPL's central library. [ 3 ]