Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The neighborhood is primarily residential, with restaurants and stores centered along a commercial corridor on Mt.Photo: smart growth, CC BY 3.0 us.
- Type: Neighborhood with 35,800 residents
- Description: historic neighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States
- Also known as: “Mount Pleasant Historic District” and “Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C.”
- Historically known as: “Ingleside”, “Mount Pleasant Village”, “Rosemont Park”, and “Walbridge”
Places of Interest
Highlights include District of Columbia Public Library-Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Branch and Guglielmo Marconi Memorial.
District of Columbia Public Library-Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Branch
Library
Photo: JuliaC2006, CC BY 2.0.
The Mount Pleasant Library at 1600 Lamont Street, NW in Washington, DC is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that opened in May 1925, and is the third oldest public library building still in use in Washington.
Guglielmo Marconi Memorial
Work of art
Photo: APK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Guglielmo Marconi Memorial is a public artwork by Attilio Piccirilli, located at the intersection of 16th and Lamont Streets NW in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It stands as a tribute to Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, whose work with telegraphy and radio waves led to the creation and popularity of the radio.
Shrine of the Sacred Heart
Church
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Shrine of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic parish established in 1899 in the Mount Pleasant/Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington D.C. The parish church is a large domed Byzantine structure modeled after the Cathedral in Ravenna, Italy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lanier Heights and Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights.
Lanier Heights
Neighborhood
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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.
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.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.
Mount Pleasant
- Categories: neighborhood of Washington, D.C. and locality
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.93091° or 38° 55′ 51″ northLongitude
-77.03822° or 77° 2′ 18″ westPopulation
35,800Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)Open location code
87C4WXJ6+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 158476340OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
4139673Wikidata ID
Q1950651
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Mount Pleasant” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Mount Pleasant”
- French: “Mount Pleasant”
- German: “Mount Pleasant (Washington, D.C.)”
- German: “Mount Pleasant”
- Italian: “Mount Pleasant”
- Spanish: “Mount Pleasant”
- Urdu: “ماؤنٹ پلیزینٹ، واشنگٹن ڈی سی”
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