Observatory Circle
Observatory Circle is a street and neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The street runs from Calvert Street to Massachusetts Avenue near 34th Street. Established in 1894, the street follows an incomplete loop, forming an arc rather than a circle.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Number One Observatory Circle and Embassy of Finland.
Number One Observatory Circle
Government office
Number One Observatory Circle is the official residence of the vice president of the United States. Located on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., it is sometimes informally referred to simply as "the Naval Observatory". Number One Observatory Circle is situated 390 feet south of Observatory Circle.
St. Nicholas Cathedral
Church
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St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is the primatial cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America and the seat of Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada of the Orthodox Church in America. St. Nicholas Cathedral is situated 1,100 feet west of Observatory Circle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Massachusetts Avenue Heights and Woodley Park.
Massachusetts Avenue Heights
Neighborhood
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Massachusetts Heights is a small neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., dominated by the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral. The neighborhood is bounded to the north by Woodley Road, to the southwest by Massachusetts Avenue, to the east by 34th Street NW, and to the west by Wisconsin Avenue.
Woodley Park
Suburb
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Woodley Park is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. Primarily residential, Woodley Park hosts a commercial corridor of restaurants and shops located along Connecticut Avenue.
Glover Park
Suburb
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Glover Park is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., about a half mile north of Georgetown and just west of the United States Naval Observatory and Number One Observatory Circle.
Observatory Circle
- Type: street
- Description: street in Washington, D.C., United States
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Observatory Circle” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Observatory Circle”
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- Chinese: “天文台圓環”
- Chinese: “天文台環路”
- Cornish: “Observatory Circle”
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- Norwegian Bokmål: “Observatory Circle”
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- Norwegian: “Observatory Circle”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Observatory Circle”
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- Romanian: “Observatory Circle”
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- Scottish Gaelic: “Observatory Circle”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Observatory Circle”
- Slovak: “Observatory Circle”
- Slovenian: “Observatory Circle”
- Spanish: “Observatory circle”
- Spanish: “Observatory Circle”
- Spanish: “Rotonda del observatorio”
- Swedish: “Observatory Circle”
- Tahitian: “Observatory Circle”
- Turkish: “Observatory Circle”
- Walloon: “Observatory Circle”
- Welsh: “Observatory Circle”
- Zulu: “Observatory Circle”
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