Petersen House

The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house in the in , located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the .
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  • Opening hours: 9:30 AM—4:45 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: house in Washington, D.C.
  • Also known as: “Ford’s Theatre National Historical Site”, “House Where Lincoln Died”, “Peterson House”, and “The Petersen House”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and Ford’s Theatre.

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The , a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.

Theater building
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Ford's Theatre is a theater in , which opened in 1863. In 1865, it was the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.

Museum
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The is a museum in , part of the . Together with its branch museum, the , SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the from the colonial period to the present. is situated 840 feet northeast of Petersen House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown and East End.

Suburb
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is the central business district of , located in It is the third largest central business district in the United States.

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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.

Neighborhood
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is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of , located in Northwest D.C. The majority of is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.

Petersen House

Latitude
38.89677° or 38° 53′ 48″ north
Longitude
-77.0262° or 77° 1′ 34″ west
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
Open location code
87C4VXWF+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 48041513
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
4140006
Wiki­data ID
Q4799733
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Petersen House” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Petersen House”
  • Amharic: “ፒተርሰን ሀውስ”
  • Arabic: “دار بيتيرسن”
  • Aragonese: “Petersen House”
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  • Chinese: “彼得森住所”
  • Chinese: “彼得森的房子”
  • Corsican: “Petersen House”
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  • Irish: “Petersen House”
  • Italian: “Petersen House”
  • Japanese: “ピーターセンハウス”
  • Kongo: “Petersen House”
  • Korean: “피터슨 하우스”
  • Ligurian: “Petersen House”
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  • Minangkabau: “Petersen House”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “دار پيتيرسن”
  • N'Ko: “ߔߌߕߍߛߐ߲߫ ߤߊߎߛ”
  • Narom: “Petersen House”
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  • Slovak: “Petersen House”
  • Slovenian: “Petersen House, Washington D.C.”
  • Spanish: “Petersen House”
  • Swahili: “Petersen House”
  • Swedish: “Petersen House”
  • Swiss German: “Petersen House”
  • Urdu: “پیٹرسن ہاؤس”
  • Venetian: “Petersen House”
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  • Welsh: “Petersen House”
  • Welsh: “Tŷ Petersen”
  • Wolof: “Petersen House”
  • Yiddish: “פיטערסן הויז”
  • Zulu: “Petersen House”

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