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The Ellipse, sometimes referred to as President's Park South, is a 52-acre (21 ha) park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The Ellipse is also the name of the five-furlong (1.0 km) circumference street within the park.
A map of President's Park in Washington, D.C.. In 1790, under the Residence Act, Philadelphia was designated as the nation's temporary capital while the permanent capital was constructed in Washington, D.C. Contests were held to solicit designs for both the United States Capitol and what was then called the President's House.
Zero Milestone face. Washington DC. Zero Milestone, facing the stone's northwest corner (2010) The Zero Milestone is a zero mile marker monument in Washington, D.C., intended as the initial milestone from which all road distances in the United States should be measured when it was built.
Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...
Washington, D.C. is located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States at , the coordinates of the Zero Milestone, on The Ellipse According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a geographical area of 68.3 square miles (176.9 km 2 ), 61.4 square miles (159.0 km 2 ) of which is land, and the remaining 6.9 square miles (17.9 km 2 ...
Marine One descending to its landing on the South Lawn in July 1987 State Arrival Ceremony for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines in May 2003. The South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., is directly south of the house and is bordered on the east by East Executive Drive and the Treasury Building, on the west by West Executive Drive and the Old Executive Office ...
Vice President Kamala Harris will kick off the final week before the election by making her so-called “closing argument” to the nation at a rally on Washington, DC’s Ellipse on Tuesday evening.
The National Capitol Columns are a monument in Washington, D.C.'s National Arboretum. It is an arrangement of twenty-two Corinthian columns that were a part of the United States Capitol from 1828 to 1958, placed amid 20 acres (8.1 ha) of open meadow, known as the Ellipse Meadow.