Dirksen Senate Office Building
The Dirksen Senate Office Building is the second office building constructed for members and staff of the United States Senate, northeast of the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C., and was named for the late longtime Minority Leader Everett Dirksen from Illinois in 1972.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Building
- Description: second of three office buildings constructed for the United States Senate
- Also known as: “Dirksen Building”, “Everett McKinley Dirksen Office Building”, “Everett McKinley Dirksen Senate Office Building”, and “New Senate Office Building”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and United States Capitol.
National Mall
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
United States Capitol
Photo: Ottojula, Public domain.
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. United States Capitol is situated 1,500 feet southwest of Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site
Park
The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The monument is named after suffragists and National Woman's Party leaders Alva Belmont and Alice Paul.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capitol Hill and NoMa.
Capitol Hill
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Capitol Hill is a venerable neighborhood just east of the Capitol building, best known as the main residence in the city for the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government, and for the staffers who run the place.
NoMa
Neighborhood
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
NoMa is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Ward 6 of the city. The neighborhood encompasses the region north of Massachusetts Avenue located north and east of Union Station.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Postdlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Dirksen Senate Office Building
- Category: congressional office building
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Dirksen Senate Office Building” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “德克森參議院辦公大樓”
- Chinese: “德克森參議院辦公樓”
- French: “Dirksen Senate Office Building”
- German: “Dirksen Senate Office Building”
- Hebrew: “בניין דירקסן”
- Hebrew: “בניין המשרדים של הסנאט דירקסן”
- Japanese: “ダークセン上院議員会館”
- Japanese: “ダークソン上院議員会館”
- Russian: “Здание Сената США имени Дирксена”
- Swedish: “Dirksen Senate Office Building”
- Vietnamese: “Tòa nhà Văn phòng Thượng viện Hoa Kỳ Dirksen”
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