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Fourteenth Street is a street in Northwest
Washington, D.C. (northwest)

Northwest is the northwestern Quadrants of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street....
 and Southwest
Washington, D.C. (southwest)

Southwest is the southwestern Quadrants of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located south of the National Mall and west of South Capitol Street....
 Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, located 1¼ mi. (2 km) west of the U.S. Capitol. It runs from the 14th Street Bridge north to Eastern Avenue
Eastern Avenue (Washington, D.C.)

Eastern Avenue is one of three boundary streets between Washington, D.C. and the state of Maryland. It forms most of the northeast edge of the boundary intesecting with Southern Avenue at its southern end....
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Northbound U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1

U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south U.S. Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs over 2000 miles from Key West, Florida north to Fort Kent, Maine at the Canadian border ....
 runs along 14th Street from the bridge to Constitution Avenue
Constitution Avenue

In Washington, D.C., Constitution Avenue is a major east-west street running just north of the United States Capitol in the city's Northwest, Washington, D.C....
, where it turns east with US 50. US 1 southbound previously used 15th Street NW due to the ban on left turns from westbound Constitution Avenue to 14th Street, but it now uses the Ninth Street Tunnel, five blocks to the east.






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Fourteenth Street is a street in Northwest
Washington, D.C. (northwest)

Northwest is the northwestern Quadrants of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street....
 and Southwest
Washington, D.C. (southwest)

Southwest is the southwestern Quadrants of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located south of the National Mall and west of South Capitol Street....
 Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, located 1¼ mi. (2 km) west of the U.S. Capitol. It runs from the 14th Street Bridge north to Eastern Avenue
Eastern Avenue (Washington, D.C.)

Eastern Avenue is one of three boundary streets between Washington, D.C. and the state of Maryland. It forms most of the northeast edge of the boundary intesecting with Southern Avenue at its southern end....
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Northbound U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1

U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south U.S. Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs over 2000 miles from Key West, Florida north to Fort Kent, Maine at the Canadian border ....
 runs along 14th Street from the bridge to Constitution Avenue
Constitution Avenue

In Washington, D.C., Constitution Avenue is a major east-west street running just north of the United States Capitol in the city's Northwest, Washington, D.C....
, where it turns east with US 50. US 1 southbound previously used 15th Street NW due to the ban on left turns from westbound Constitution Avenue to 14th Street, but it now uses the Ninth Street Tunnel, five blocks to the east. 14th Street crosses the National Mall
National Mall

The National Mall is an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the Capital of the United States. Officially termed by the National Park Service the National Mall & Memorial Parks, the term commonly includes the areas that are officially part of West Potomac Park and Constitution Gardens to the west, and often is taken to...
 and runs near the White House
White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
 and through the western side of Washington's Logan Circle neighborhood.

Because it connects to one of the main bridges crossing the Potomac River
Potomac River

The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. The river is approximately 383 statute miles long, with a Drainage basin of about 14,700 square miles ....
 into Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
, 14th Street has always been a major transportation corridor. It was the location of one of the first streetcar lines
Washington streetcars

For just under 100 years, between 1862 and 1962, streetcars in Washington, D.C. transported people across the city and region.The first streetcars in Washington D.C....
, and today it is the location of several afternoon carpooling "slug lines
Slugging

Slugging, also known as casual carpooling, is the practice of forming ad-hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of Carpool commuting and hitchhiking....
", which allow commuters may meet the high-occupancy vehicle requirements of the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway
Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway

The Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway was the first limited access freeway in the United States state of Virginia. Begun in 1946, the road was completed from Woodbridge, Virginia to the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River between Virginia and Washington, D.C., in 1952....
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History

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In the middle of the 20th century, 14th Street NW was home to many car dealership
Car dealership

A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new Automobile and/or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or its sales subsidiary....
s and was known as "auto row". The area surrounding 14th and U Streets
U Street Corridor

The U Street Corridor is a collection of shops, restaurants, nightclubs, galleries and residences along a nine-block stretch of U Street in Washington, D.C....
 is often thought of as Washington's "Harlem
Harlem

Harlem is a Neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center....
", and the police once considered this section of the city to be the most volatile of the "negro districts". During the 1960s, the street was the location of several race riot
Race riot

A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil disorder in which Race is a key factor. The term had entered the English language in the United States by the 1890s....
s, most notably in 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an United States pastor, activist and prominent leader in the African-American African-American Civil Rights Movement ....


In the 1980s, 14th Street became known primarily for its red-light district
Red-light district

A red-light district is a neighborhood where prostitution and other businesses in the sex industry flourish. The term "red-light district" was first recorded in the United States in 1894, in an article in The Sentinel, a newspaper in Milwaukee....
, located roughly between New York Avenue
New York Avenue (Washington, D.C.)

New York Avenue is one of the diagonal avenues radiating from the White House in Washington, D.C. It is a major east-west route in the city's Washington DC and Washington DC quadrants and connects downtown with points east and north of the city via Cheverly, Maryland, the John Hanson Highway and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway....
 and K Street. However, rising land values eventually pushed out the adult businesses. The Source Theatre, founded by Bart Whiteman
Bart Whiteman

Bart Whiteman was a Washington, D.C. theatre actor, director, and producer. He founded the Source Theatre in 1977 and served as its artistic director until 1986....
, was given some credit for the area's revival. Whiteman stood outside the theater to escort people inside in order to make them feel safer.

With the gentrification of the neighborhoods through which it passes – particularly downtown, Logan Circle, the U Street Corridor
U Street Corridor

The U Street Corridor is a collection of shops, restaurants, nightclubs, galleries and residences along a nine-block stretch of U Street in Washington, D.C....
, and Columbia Heights
Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C.

Columbia Heights is a neighborhood in central Washington, D.C....
 – 14th Street is now known for live theater, art galleries, and trendy restaurants. Moreover, while the nominal center of the city's gay
LGBT

LGBT is an acronym and initialism referring collectively to Lesbian,Gay, Bisexuality, and Transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term ?LGBT? is an adaptation of the initialism ?LGBT? which itself started replacing the phrase ?gay community? which many within LGBT communities felt did not represent accurately all those to which it...
 life is still Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle

Dupont Circle is a traffic circle, neighborhood, and Historic district in Northwest, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. The traffic circle is located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue , Connecticut Avenue , New Hampshire Avenue, P Street NW, and 19th Street NW....
, the Washington Blade called 14th Street between U Street and Massachusetts Avenue (Thomas Circle
Thomas Circle

Thomas Circle is a traffic circle in the Washington DC Address #Quadrants of Washington, D.C., at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue , Vermont Avenue, 14th Street Northwest and Southwest , and M Street , N.W....
) the best place to see and be seen.

Landmarks

  • The Black Cat
  • Columbia Heights Metro station
    Columbia Heights (Washington Metro)

    File:Columbia Heights station entrance pylon.jpgColumbia Heights is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Green Line . It is also served by the Yellow Line during off-peak times....
  • Freedom Plaza
    Freedom Plaza

    Freedom Plaza, originally known as Western Plaza, is an open plaza in Northwest Washington, D.C., United States, located at the corner of 14th Street Northwest and Southwest and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, adjacent to Pershing Park....
  • John A. Wilson Building
    John A. Wilson Building

    The John A. Wilson Building, popularly known simply as the Wilson Building, is the building in downtown Washington, D.C. that houses the offices and chambers of the Council of the District of Columbia and the List of mayors of Washington, D.C....
  • National Aquarium
    National Aquarium in Washington, D.C.

    The National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. is an aquarium in Washington D.C. It is located in the Herbert C. Hoover Building , which is bounded by 14th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C....
  • National Press Building
  • Oscar Straus Memorial
    Oscar Straus Memorial

    File:Oscar Straus Memorial, Justice - Washington, D.C..jpgThe Oscar S. Straus Memorial in Washington, D.C. commemorates the accomplishments of the first Jew to serve in the Cabinet of the United States of a President of the United States....
  • Pershing Park
    Pershing Park

    Pershing Park is a small park in Washington D.C. Located at 14th Street Northwest and Southwest and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, it is across the street from Freedom Plaza and the Willard InterContinental Washington....
  • Ronald Reagan Building
    Ronald Reagan Building

    File:Ronald Reagan Building - Washington, D.C..jpgThe Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, named after former President of the United States Ronald Reagan, is the first federal building in Washington, D.C....
  • Thomas Circle
    Thomas Circle

    Thomas Circle is a traffic circle in the Washington DC Address #Quadrants of Washington, D.C., at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue , Vermont Avenue, 14th Street Northwest and Southwest , and M Street , N.W....
  • Tivoli Theatre
    Tivoli Theatre (Washington)

    The Tivoli Theatre is a landmark building in the Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Washington, D.C. on 14th Street Northwest and Southwest and Park Road Northwest....
  • United States Department of Commerce
    United States Department of Commerce

    The United States Department of Commerce is the United States Cabinet department of the United States Federal government of the United States concerned with promoting economic growth....
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States's living memorial to the Holocaust. Located among monuments and memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM is dedicated to help leaders and citizens of the world to confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy....
  • Walter Reed Army Medical Center
    Walter Reed Army Medical Center

    The Walter Reed Army Medical Center is the United States Army flagship medical center on the East Coast of the United States. Located on 113 acres in Washington, D.C., it serves more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the military....
  • Willard InterContinental Washington
    Willard InterContinental Washington

    The Willard InterContinental Washington is an historic luxury hotel located two blocks east of the White House in Washington, D.C. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, and voluminous function rooms....