Adams Memorial
The Adams Memorial is a grave marker for Marian Hooper Adams and Henry Adams located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The memorial features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rock Creek Cemetery and Saint Pauls Episcopal Church.
Rock Creek Cemetery
Cemetery
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Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery.
Saint Pauls Episcopal Church
Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, is a historic Episcopal church located on Rock Creek Church Road, NW, in Washington, D.C., United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Totten and Petworth.
Fort Totten
Suburb
Fort Totten is a neighborhood located in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C. Fort Totten is located between Riggs Road N.E. to the north, Bates Rd N.E, Allison Street N.E, and the southern end of Fort Totten Park to the south, the Washington Metro Red Line tracks to the east, and North Capitol Street NW to the west.
Petworth
Neighborhood
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Brookland, Petworth, and Takoma are three relatively quiet neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park. Following the "White Flight" after desegregation and the 1968 riots, these neighborhoods were left underpopulated, overwhelmingly African-American, and much less wealthy than the Upper Northwest, just across Rock Creek Park.
Adams Memorial
- Type: Park
- Description: artwork by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Categories: tombstone and memorial
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Adams Memorial” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Adams Memorial”
- French: “Adams Memorial”
- German: “Adams Memorial”
- Hebrew: “אנדרטת אדמס”
- Portuguese: “Adams Memorial”
- Slovenian: “Adams Memorial”
- Spanish: “Monumento conmemorativo Adams (Saint-Gaudens)”
- Spanish: “Monumento conmemorativo Adams”
- Swedish: “Adams Memorial”
- Urdu: “ایڈمز میموریل (سینٹ گاڈنز)”
- Urdu: “ایڈمز میموریل”
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