Brightwood Park United Methodist Church

Brightwood Park United Methodist Church is a church in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic which is located on Jefferson Street Northwest. Brightwood Park United Methodist Church is situated nearby to the park Sherman Circle, as well as near the neighborhood Petworth.

Type: Church
Denomination: Methodist
Address: 744 Jefferson Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20011-7720

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sherman Circle and Fort Slocum.

Sherman Circle

Park

Photo: Whubsch, CC0.

Sherman Circle is an urban park and traffic circle in the Northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Petworth at the intersection of Illinois Avenue, Kansas Avenue, 7th Street, and Crittenden Street NW.

Fort Slocum

Park

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Fort Slocum was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., built in the Northeast quadrant of the city after the beginning of the war by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army.

Fort Stevens

Park

Photo: D Monack, Public domain.

Fort Stevens, formerly named Fort Massachusetts, was part of the extensive fortifications built around Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brookland-Petworth-Takoma and Brightwood Park.

Brookland-Petworth-Takoma

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.

Brightwood Park

Neighborhood

Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brightwood Park is a small neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C. in the United States. The neighborhood is bounded by Georgia Avenue NW to the west, Missouri Avenue NW to the northeast and Kennedy Street NW to the south.