Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site
The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The monument is named after suffragists and National Woman's Party leaders Alva Belmont and Alice Paul.- Type: Park
- Description: historic house and museum of the U.S. women’s suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
- Also known as: “Alva Belmont House”, “Belmont–Paul Women’s Equality National Monument”, “BEPA”, “National Womens Party Building”, “Sewall House”, “Sewall-Belmont House”, “Sewall-Belmont House and Museum”, and “Sewall-Gallatin-Belmont House”
- Address: 144 Constitution Avenue Northeast, Washington, DC
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Mall and United States Capitol.
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.
United States Capitol
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The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Library
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period in Britain and Europe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capitol Hill and NoMa.
Capitol Hill
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Capitol Hill is a venerable neighborhood just east of the Capitol building, best known as the main residence in the city for the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government, and for the staffers who run the place.
NoMa
Neighborhood
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NoMa is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Ward 6 of the city. The neighborhood encompasses the region north of Massachusetts Avenue located north and east of Union Station.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
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Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown is a small, historic area of Downtown Washington, D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest. The area was once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants, but fewer than 300 remained in 2017.
Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site
Latitude
38.89233° or 38° 53′ 32″ northLongitude
-77.00386° or 77° 0′ 14″ westElevation
92 feet (28 metres)Operator
National Park ServiceOpen location code
87C4VXRW+WFOpenStreetMap ID
way 801299564OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4140455Wikidata ID
Q7458146
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نصب بلمونت-بول الوطني التذكاري لمساواة النساء”
- Cebuano: “Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site”
- French: “Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument”
- French: “Sewall-Belmont House and Museum”
- German: “Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument”
- Swahili: “Sewall-Belmont House na Makumbusho”
- Urdu: “بیلمونٹ – پال خواتین کی مساوات قومی یادگار”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Capitol Hill and NoMa.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sewall-Belmont House and Museum and Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial.
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