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Mount Vernon Square is a city square
Town square

Public square and city square redirect here. For Public Square, Cleveland, see Public Square and for City Square in Leeds see Leeds City Square....
 in the Northwest quadrant
Address (geography)

An address is a code and abstract concept expressing the fixed location of a home, business or other building on the earth's surface....
 of 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....
  It is located where the following streets would otherwise intersect: Massachusetts Avenue, 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....
, K Street, and 8th Street NW.

Mount Vernon Square is bounded on the east by 7th Street
7th Street (Washington, D.C.)

There are four north-south arteries in Washington, D.C. named Seventh Street that are differentiated by the Address #Quadrants of the city in which they are located....
, N.W.; on the west by 9th Street, N.W.; on the north by Mount Vernon Place; and on the south by a two-block section of K Street that is slightly offset from the rest of K Street.

On the north side of the square is the new Walter E.






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Mount Vernon Square is a city square
Town square

Public square and city square redirect here. For Public Square, Cleveland, see Public Square and for City Square in Leeds see Leeds City Square....
 in the Northwest quadrant
Address (geography)

An address is a code and abstract concept expressing the fixed location of a home, business or other building on the earth's surface....
 of 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....
  It is located where the following streets would otherwise intersect: Massachusetts Avenue, 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....
, K Street, and 8th Street NW.

Mount Vernon Square is bounded on the east by 7th Street
7th Street (Washington, D.C.)

There are four north-south arteries in Washington, D.C. named Seventh Street that are differentiated by the Address #Quadrants of the city in which they are located....
, N.W.; on the west by 9th Street, N.W.; on the north by Mount Vernon Place; and on the south by a two-block section of K Street that is slightly offset from the rest of K Street.

On the north side of the square is the new Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the largest building in the city. On the south side is the Techworld office development, and on the east, offices of National Public Radio
National Public Radio

National Public Radio is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national Radio syndication to 797 public radio List of NPR stations in the United States....
. In the center of the square is the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. The white marble building, finished in 1903, was originally the District of Columbia Public Library, a gift of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was a Scotland-born United States industrialist, List of business people, and a major philanthropist. He was an immigrant as a child with his parents....
. Washington's Chinatown
Chinatown, Washington, D.C.

Chinatown in Washington, D.C. is a small, historic neighborhood east of downtown, in the present day consisting of about 20 of ethnic China and other Asian restaurants and small businesses along H Street and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Washington DC ....
 is centered two blocks to the south. The closest Metro
Washington Metro

The Washington Metro is the rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. and its surrounding suburbs. The system is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ....
 station is Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center
Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center (Washington Metro)

Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Green Line and Yellow Line Lines. Yellow Line trains terminate service here, and reverse direction using a pocket track just north of the station....
. The giant marble is another landmark.

Mount Vernon Square is also a Washington neighborhood and historic district, named for the adjacent city square, bounded by 9th Street N.W. on the west, 1st St and NJ Ave N.W. on the east, N Street N.W. on the north, and Massachusetts Avenue N.W. to the south.

See also

  • List of Circles in Washington, D.C.
    List of Circles in Washington, D.C.

    The Streets and highways of Washington, D.C. in Washington, D.C. consists primarily of numbered streets along the north-south axis and lettered streets followed by streets named in alphabetical order along the east-west axis....


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