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The section of the avenue between the White House, which is sometimes referred to by its address "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue", and the Capitol forms the basis for the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and is sometimes referred to as "America's Main Street"; [1] it is the location of official parades and processions, and periodic protest ...
Pennsylvania Avenue is a street in Washington, D.C. and its suburbs on which some major landmarks, including the White House and the United States Capitol, are located. Pennsylvania Avenue may also refer to: Pennsylvania Avenue (Baltimore), a street in Baltimore, Maryland; Pennsylvania Avenue, a portion of Connecticut Route 161
Articles and categories related to Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Pages in category "Pennsylvania Avenue" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of ...
Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street in 1839 with the First Unitarian Church on the northeast corner of 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue visible in the background. Prior to the settlement of the area by European colonists, the Piscataway tribe of Native Americans occupied the northeastern banks of the Potomac River, although no permanent settlements are known in the area now encompassed by the ...
Many local governments now require a street-name suffix to comply with emergency telephone rules intended to avoid spoken confusion, e.g. spoken Broadway could be misidentified as Broad Way. Notwithstanding this, some street names historically and linguistically do not carry a suffix, e.g. Broadway, Rampart, Embarcadero.
The Antelope Valley has a similar system, but with streets in between (e.g. Avenue J-8) taking the name of the first avenue to their north, and suffixed with a number for how many sixteenths of a mile south they are. For example, Avenue J-8 is 8/16 mile (1/2 mile) south of Avenue J.
The Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge conveys Pennsylvania Avenue across Rock Creek and the adjoining Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, between the neighborhoods of Georgetown and Foggy Bottom in Northwest Washington, D.C. Pennsylvania Avenue terminates at M Street immediately west of the bridge.
Pennsylvania Avenue is a major north–south street in Brooklyn, New York. It generally runs north to south, from the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Broadway Junction to the Belt Parkway in Starrett City. Pennsylvania Avenue is also known as Granville Payne Avenue, named after a jazz musician and community activist. [1]