L’Enfant Plaza
L'Enfant Plaza is a complex of four commercial buildings grouped around a large plaza in the Southwest section of Washington, D.C., United States. Immediately below the plaza and the buildings is La Promenade shopping mall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tim1965, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: complex of four commercial buildings grouped around a plaza in Washington, D.C., United States
- Also known as: “L’Enfant Plaza Building”
- Address: 470 L’Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and International Spy Museum.
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.
International Spy Museum
Museum
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The International Spy Museum is an independent non-profit history museum which documents the tradecraft, history, and contemporary role of the intelligence field and espionage. International Spy Museum is situated 450 feet west of L’Enfant Plaza.
National Gallery of Art
Museum
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 2,900 feet northeast of L’Enfant Plaza.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waterfront and Southwest.
Waterfront
Southwest
Quarter
East End
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
L’Enfant Plaza
- Categories: street, square, and group of structures or buildings
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.8839° or 38° 53′ 2″ northLongitude
-77.02395° or 77° 1′ 26″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)Levels
12Open location code
87C4VXMG+HCOpenStreetMap ID
way 48040335OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesGeoNames ID
4139333Wikidata ID
Q6455669
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Spanish—“L’Enfant Plaza” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ল’এনফ্যান্ট প্লাজা”
- Chinese: “朗方廣場”
- Chinese: “郎方廣場”
- Dutch: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لانفانت بلازا”
- French: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- German: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Indonesian: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Slovenian: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Spanish: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Spanish: “LEnfant Plaza”
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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 “L’Enfant Plaza”. Photo: Tim1965, CC BY-SA 3.0.