Grimke School
Grimke School is a school building in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic which is located on Vermont Avenue Northwest. Grimke School is situated nearby to the monument African American Civil War Memorial, as well as near U Street Metro Station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: School building
- Also known as: “Phelps School”
- Address: 1923 Vermont Avenue Northwest
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include African American Civil War Memorial and U Street Metro Station.
African American Civil War Memorial
Monument
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
African American Civil War Memorial is a monument.
U Street Metro Station
Metro station
Photo: JosephBarillari, CC BY-SA 3.0.
U Street station is a rapid transit station on the Green Line and Yellow Line of the Washington Metro in the U Street neighborhood of Washington, D.C. U Street station is located in northwest Washington and serves the U Street neighborhood. U Street Metro Station is situated 370 feet northwest of Grimke School.
Lincoln Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Lincoln Theatre is a historic theater in Washington, D.C., located at 1215 U Street, next to Ben's Chili Bowl. The theater, located on "Washington's Black Broadway", served the city's African American community when segregation kept them out of other venues. Lincoln Theatre is situated 1,200 feet west of Grimke School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shaw and Logan Circle.
Shaw
Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.
Shaw is a neighborhood in north-central Washington D.C. just east of Dupont Circle and south of Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. Although it has a diverse population, Shaw is distinctive from the adjacent areas due to its African-American heritage.
Logan Circle
Neighborhood
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
Logan Circle is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The majority of Logan Circle is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.
Columbia Heights
Suburb
Photo: D Monack, Public domain.
Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and Columbia Heights are three bordering neighborhoods in Washington DC, each with a different character, but united in an unmistakable sense of dynamism, diversity, youth, and nightlife.
Grimke School
- Categories: building and education
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.91619° or 38° 54′ 58″ northLongitude
-77.02521° or 77° 1′ 31″ westElevation
89 feet (27 metres)Inception
1887Named after
Archibald GrimkéOpen location code
87C4WX8F+FWOpenStreetMap ID
way 67133080OpenStreetMap feature
building=schoolGeoNames ID
4138982
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