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The District Building was designed in the American Beaux Arts classical revival style and takes up the entire block between 14th and 13 1/2th Streets NW, south of Pennsylvania Avenue across from Freedom Plaza. The base of the building is made of grey granite from Maine, while the upper four stories are constructed of white marble from New York ...
Each of the organizations located in the Pennsylvania Avenue building are dedicated to international trade and global relations. Organizations headquartered in this building include U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the central area of Washington, D.C. For the purposes of this list central Washington, D. C. is defined as all of the Northwest quadrant east of Rock Creek and south of M Street and all of the Southwest quadrant.
Pennsylvania Avenue saw its first electric streetlights give light on October 14, 1881. [56] A small number of additional lights north of the avenue along 10th Street NW were lit later that month. [57] The southern part of the Pennsylvania Avenue district was flooded many times in the last three decades of the 19th century.
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.
The Plaza is one block south of the "Freedom Plaza" historical marker at stop number W.7 of the Civil War to Civil Rights Downtown Heritage Trail at 13th and E Streets, NW. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Plaza is a popular location for skateboarding , although the illegal sport damages stonework, walls, steps, and sculpture while presenting a persistent law ...
Pennsylvania Avenue is a primarily diagonal street in Washington, ... 904 (Anacostia Freeway to Independence Ave., then 7th St. NW to 11th St. NW)
(Here I Stand) In the Spirit of Paul Robeson at Georgia and Kansas avenues NW in Petworth. Holodomor Memorial at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Streets NW; Man Controlling Trade by Michael Lantz at Federal Trade Commission headquarters at Pennsylvania Avenue and 6th Streets NW; Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain at Constitution Ave ...