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Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood in , located in The neighborhood is primarily residential, with restaurants and stores centered along a commercial corridor on Mt.
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  • 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 Guglielmo Marconi and Shrine of the Sacred Heart.

Work of art
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The Memorial is a public artwork by Attilio Piccirilli, located at the intersection of 16th and Lamont Streets NW in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of It stands as a tribute to Italian inventor , whose work with telegraphy and radio waves led to the creation and popularity of the radio.

Church
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The 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 , .

Shopping center
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is an 890,000-square-foot vertical power center, i.e. a multilevel enclosed urban shopping center anchored by big box stores. It is located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of A Washington City Paper poll named the "Best Designed Retail Space" of 2009.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lanier Heights and Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights.

Neighborhood
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is a small urban neighborhood in the northwest section of It was one of the District of Columbia’s early planned subdivisions outside the original City of Washington.

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.

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.

Mount Pleasant

Latitude
38.93091° or 38° 55′ 51″ north
Longitude
-77.03822° or 77° 2′ 18″ west
Population
35,800
Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)
Open location code
87C4WXJ6+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158476340
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
4139673
Wiki­data ID
Q1950651
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Urdu—“Mount Pleasant” goes by many names.

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