Blanche K Bruce House

The Blanche K. Bruce House is a historic house at 909 M Street NW in Washington, D.C. Built in 1865, it was a home of slave-born Blanche K. Bruce, who was the first African-American to serve a full term in the U.S.

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Type: House
Description: National Historic Landmark house in Washington, D.C., United States
Also known as: “Blanche Bruce House”, “Blanche K. Bruce House”, and “Blanche Kelso Bruce House”
Address: 909 M Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

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.

Walter E. Washington Convention Center

Convention center

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The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is a 2.3-million-square-foot convention center located in Washington, D.C., owned and operated by the city's convention arm, Events DC. Walter E. Washington Convention Center is situated 510 feet southeast of Blanche K Bruce House.

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Museum

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The National Museum of Women in the Arts, located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. National Museum of Women in the Arts is situated 2,500 feet southwest of Blanche K Bruce House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Logan Circle and East End.

Logan Circle

Neighborhood

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Logan Circle is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The majority of Logan Circle is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.

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.

Chinatown

Neighborhood

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Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown is a small, historic area of Downtown Washington, D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest. The area was once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants, but fewer than 300 remained in 2017.

Blanche K Bruce House

Categories: building and residential building
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.90588° or 38° 54′ 21″ north

Longitude

-77.02447° or 77° 1′ 28″ west

Elevation

85 feet (26 metres)

Open location code

87C4WX4G+96

OpenStreetMap ID

way 55316579

OpenStreetMap feature

building=house

GeoNames ID

4137768

Wikidata ID

Q4924862

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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Blanche K Bruce House” goes by many names.

French: “Blanche K. Bruce House”
French: “maison Blanche K. Bruce”
German: “Blanche K. Bruce House”
Spanish: “Blanche K. Bruce House”

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