George Gordon Meade Memorial
The George Gordon Meade Memorial, also known as the Meade Memorial or Major General George Gordon Meade, is a public artwork in Washington, D.C. honoring George Meade, a career military officer from Pennsylvania who is best known for defeating General Robert E.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: artwork by Charles Grafly
- Also known as: “General Meade Statue”, “Major General George Gordon Meade”, “Major-General George C. Meade Statue”, and “Meade Memorial”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and National Gallery of 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 Gallery of Art
Museum
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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. National Gallery of Art is situated 1,000 feet west of George Gordon Meade Memorial.
United States Capitol
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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 2,300 feet east of George Gordon Meade Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East End and Downtown.
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.
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.
Capitol Hill
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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.
George Gordon Meade Memorial
- Categories: sculpture, monument, tourism, historic site, and memorial
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.89216° or 38° 53′ 32″ northLongitude
-77.01647° or 77° 0′ 59″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
87C4VXRM+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 916489196OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statue
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“George Gordon Meade Memorial” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “General Meade Statue”
- French: “George Gordon Meade Memorial”
- Serbo-Croatian: “George Gordon Meade Memorial”
- Spanish: “Monumento conmemorativo a George Gordon Meade”
- Urdu: “جارج گورڈن میڈ میموریل”
- Western Panjabi: “جارج گورڈن میڈ میموریل”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Penn Quarter and Capitol Hill.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Constitution Ave NW at Pennsylvania Ave NW and Trylon of Freedom.
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