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 Apostolic Nunciature in the United States of America.
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.
Apostolic Nunciature in the United States of America
Government office
Photo: Jonathunder, GFDL.
The Apostolic Nunciature to the United States, sometimes referred to as the Vatican Embassy, is the diplomatic mission of the Holy See to the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodley Park and Glover Park.
Woodley Park
Suburb
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
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
Photo: Nathanael Greene, Public domain.
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.
Burleith
Neighborhood
Photo: Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burleith is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C.’s Northwest quadrant. It is bordered by 35th Street NW to the east, Reservoir Road NW and the historic Georgetown district to the south, Whitehaven Park to the north, and Glover-Archbold Park to the west.
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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- Catalan: “Observatory Circle”
- Chinese: “天文台圓環”
- Chinese: “天文台環路”
- Cornish: “Observatory Circle”
- Corsican: “Observatory Circle”
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- Czech: “Observatory Circle”
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- French: “Observatory Circle”
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- Hungarian: “Observatory Circle”
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- Irish: “Observatory Circle”
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- Maltese: “Observatory Circle”
- Manx: “Observatory Circle”
- Narom: “Observatory Circle”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Observatory Circle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Observatory Circle”
- Norwegian: “Observatory Circle”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Observatory Circle”
- Piemontese: “Observatory Circle”
- Polish: “Observatory Circle”
- Portuguese: “Observatory Circle”
- Romanian: “Observatory Circle”
- Romansh: “Observatory Circle”
- 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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