Meridian Hill Park
Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, is an urban park in Washington, D.C., located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood that straddles the border between Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.Photo: SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: urban park in Washington, DC
- Also known as: “Malcolm X Park”, “Meridian Hill (Malcolm X) Park”, “Meridian Hill Malcolm X Park”, “Meridian Hill Park (Malcolm X Park)”, and “Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc and Serenity.
Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc
Work of art
Photo: Timothy Vollmer, CC BY 2.0.
Joan of Arc is a 1922 cast of the 1896 statue sculpted by French artist Paul Dubois. It is located in the center of the grand terrace at Meridian Hill Park, an urban park in Washington, D.C. The bronze statue rests on a granite base designed by McKim, Mead & White.
Serenity
Work of art
Photo: APK, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Serenity is a public artwork in Meridian Hill Park, an urban park in Washington, D.C. It was sculpted by Spanish-Catalan artist Josep Clarà, who created an identical version on display in Barcelona.
St. Augustine Catholic Church
Church
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Augustine Catholic Church is a Catholic parish in Washington, D.C. It is considered by many to be the "Mother Church of Black Catholics", as the first Black parish in the district and the administrator of D.C.'s oldest surviving Black school.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan.
Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights
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.Adams Morgan
Neighborhood
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.
Lanier Heights
Neighborhood
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lanier Heights is a small urban neighborhood in the northwest section of Washington, D.C. It was one of the District of Columbia’s early planned subdivisions outside the original City of Washington.
Meridian Hill Park
- Categories: urban park and recreation area
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.92123° or 38° 55′ 16″ northLongitude
-77.03559° or 77° 2′ 8″ westElevation
190 feet (58 metres)Operator
National Park ServiceOpen location code
87C4WXC7+FQOpenStreetMap ID
way 41965077OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4139591Wikidata ID
Q6819327
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Meridian Hill Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Meridian Hill Park”
- French: “Meridian Hill Park”
- French: “Parc Meridian Hill”
- Japanese: “メリディアンヒル公園”
- Polish: “Malcolm X Park”
- Polish: “Meridian Hill Malcolm X Park”
- Polish: “Meridian Hill Park”
- Polish: “Meridian Hill”
- Urdu: “میریڈیئن ہل پارک”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Columbia Heights and 9th St NW-13th St NW, Washington DC.
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