Powell Recreation Center

Powell Recreation Center is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Powell Recreation Center is situated nearby to the neighborhood Mount Pleasant, as well as near Lanier Heights.

Places of Interest

Highlights include District of Columbia Public Library-Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Branch and Shrine of the Sacred Heart.

District of Columbia Public Library-Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Branch

Library

Photo: JuliaC2006, CC BY 2.0.

The Mount Pleasant Library at 1600 Lamont Street, NW in Washington, DC is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that opened in May 1925, and is the third oldest public library building still in use in Washington.

Shrine of the Sacred Heart

Church

Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Shrine of the Sacred Heart is a 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 Ravenna, Italy.

DC USA

Shopping center

Photo: Gridprop, Public domain.

DC USA 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 Washington, D.C. A Washington City Paper poll named DC USA the "Best Designed Retail Space" of 2009.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mount Pleasant and Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights.

Mount Pleasant

Neighborhood

Photo: smart growth, CC BY 3.0 us.

Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The neighborhood is primarily residential, with restaurants and stores centered along a commercial corridor on Mt.

Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights

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.

Lanier Heights

Neighborhood

Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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

Powell Recreation Center

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.93034° or 38° 55′ 49″ north

Longitude

-77.03556° or 77° 2′ 8″ west

Elevation

197 feet (60 metres)

Open location code

87C4WXJ7+4Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 48207301

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4140070

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Powell Recreation Center and Powell Playground.

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