Andrew Jackson Downing Urn
Andrew Jackson Downing Urn is a memorial in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Andrew Jackson Downing Urn is situated nearby to National Museum of African Art, as well as near National Museum of Natural History.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and National Museum of African Art.
National Mall
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The National Mall, a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in Washington, D.C. stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.
National Museum of African Art
Museum
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The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum, located on the National Mall of the United States capital. Its collections include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes.
National Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. National Museum of Natural History is situated 1,100 feet north of Andrew Jackson Downing Urn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown and East End.
Downtown
Suburb
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Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States.
East End
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East End is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.
Waterfront
The Waterfront is just south of the National Mall. In addition to beautiful views of the Washington Channel, which separates the parkland on Hains Point with the land contiguous with the National Mall, this neighborhood includes great seafood, restaurants, bars, sports stadiums, entertainment options and boat excursions.
Andrew Jackson Downing Urn
- Type: Memorial
- Also known as: “Downing Memorial” and “Downing Urn”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.8884° or 38° 53′ 18″ northLongitude
-77.0254° or 77° 1′ 32″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Inception
1856Open location code
87C4VXQF+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 358958267OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialGeoNames ID
4137557
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“Andrew Jackson Downing Urn” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Andrew Jackson Downing Urn”
- French: “Andrew Jackson Downing”
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