Mount Vernon Square
Mount Vernon Square is a city square and neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The square is located where the following streets would otherwise intersect: Massachusetts Avenue NW, New York Avenue NW, K Street NW, and 8th Street NW.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: park and plaza in Washington, D.C.
- Also known as: “Mount Vernon Square Historic District” and “Mount Vernon Square, Washington, D.C.”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Mall and Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
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.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Convention center
The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is a 2.3-million-square-foot convention center located in Washington, D.C., owned and operated by the city's convention arm, Events DC.
Capital One Arena
Stadium
Capital One Arena is an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Located in the Chinatown section of the larger Penn Quarter neighborhood, the arena sits atop the Gallery Place rapid transit station of the Washington Metro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East End and Downtown.
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.
Downtown
Suburb
Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0.
Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States.
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.
Mount Vernon Square
- Categories: neighborhood of Washington, D.C., neighborhood, historic district, and square
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Mount Vernon Square” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Vernon Square”
- Chinese: “弗农山广场”
- Chinese: “弗農山廣場”
- Dutch: “Mount Vernon Square”
- Japanese: “マウントバーノン広場”
- Korean: “마운트 버논 스퀘어”
- Slovenian: “Mount Vernon Square”
- Spanish: “Plaza de Mount Vernon”
- Urdu: “ماؤنٹ ورنن سکوئیر، واشنگٹن ڈی سی”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Chinatown and Thomas Circle.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Vernon Square/7th Street-Convention Center Metro Station and American Federation of Labor Building.
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