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Howard Hall

The General Oliver Otis Howard House, also known as Howard Hall, is a historic house, and the oldest surviving building on the campus of , in Built in 1867, it was the home of General Oliver Otis Howard, the university founder and its third president.
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  • Type: University building
  • Description: historic house in Washington, D.C., United States
  • Also known as: “General Oliver Otis Howard House” and “Howard Hall - Howard University”
  • Address: DC

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Banneker Recreation Center and Founders Library.

Sports venue
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is an historic structure located in the neighborhood of The building was built in 1934 and was named for Benjamin Banneker, a free African American who assisted in the survey of boundaries of the original District of Columba in 1791.

Library
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The is an academic library at in The building, named The in honor of the 17 men who founded Howard University, serves as a symbol of the university. is situated 660 feet east of Howard Hall.

Library
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The in , is located on the campus of on the first and ground floors of Founders Library. is situated 700 feet east of Howard Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Columbia Heights and Bloomingdale.

Suburb
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Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and are three bordering neighborhoods in Washington DC, each with a different character, but united in an unmistakable sense of dynamism, diversity, youth, and nightlife.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of , less than two miles north of the building. It is a primarily residential neighborhood, with a small commercial center near the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue and First Street NW featuring bars, restaurants, and food markets.

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is a neighborhood in north-central Washington D.C. just east of and south of and . Although it has a diverse population, is distinctive from the adjacent areas due to its African-American heritage.

Howard Hall

Latitude
38.92298° or 38° 55′ 23″ north
Longitude
-77.02184° or 77° 1′ 19″ west
Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)
Open location code
87C4WXFH+57
Open­Street­Map ID
way 226023230
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­university
Geo­Names ID
4138862
Wiki­data ID
Q5532073
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Howard Hall”. Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.