Embassy of Switzerland
Embassy of Switzerland is a government office in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic which is located on Cathedral Avenue Northwest. Embassy of Switzerland is situated nearby to Maret School, as well as near the historic site Tregaron Estate.- Opening hours: Monday—Friday 9:00 AM—noon
- Email: washington@eda.admin.ch
- Type: Government office
- Also known as: “Embassy of the Swiss Confederation in the United States of America”
- Address: 2900 Cathedral Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20008
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Number One Observatory Circle and Tregaron Estate.
Number One Observatory Circle
Government office
Number One Observatory Circle is the official residence of the vice president of the United States. Located on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., it is sometimes informally referred to simply as "the Naval Observatory". Number One Observatory Circle is situated 3,000 feet southwest of Embassy of Switzerland.
Tregaron Estate
Historic site
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"Tregaron Estate," formerly known as "The Causeway," is a country house and estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest, Washington, D.C. The estate, built in 1912, was designed by architect Charles Adams Platt and landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman. Tregaron Estate is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Embassy of Switzerland.
Maret School
School
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Maret School is an independent, non-sectarian, college-preparatory day school in Washington, DC with 650 students in grades K–12. Three immigrant sisters, Marthe, Louise, and Jeanne Maret, left their home in Geneva, Switzerland at the turn of the twentieth century and created the school in 1911. Maret School is situated 700 feet west of Embassy of Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodley Park and Cleveland Park.
Woodley Park
Suburb
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Woodley Park is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. Primarily residential, Woodley Park hosts a commercial corridor of restaurants and shops located along Connecticut Avenue.
Cleveland Park
Suburb
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Cleveland Park is a residential neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It is located at and bounded approximately by Rock Creek Park to the east, Wisconsin and Idaho Avenues to the west, Klingle and Woodley Roads to the south, and Rodman and Tilden Streets to the north.
Massachusetts Avenue Heights
Neighborhood
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Massachusetts Heights is a small neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., dominated by the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral. The neighborhood is bounded to the north by Woodley Road, to the southwest by Massachusetts Avenue, to the east by 34th Street NW, and to the west by Wisconsin Avenue.
Embassy of Switzerland
- Categories: office and government building
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.92861° or 38° 55′ 43″ northLongitude
-77.05794° or 77° 3′ 29″ westElevation
256 feet (78 metres)Open location code
87C4WWHR+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 819092453OpenStreetMap feature
office=diplomaticGeoNames ID
4138469
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Embassy of Switzerland” goes by many names.
- French: “Ambassade de Suisse”
- German: “Schweizerische Botschaft”
- Spanish: “Embajada de Suiza”
- Swedish: “Schweiz ambassad”
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