Seward Square

Seward Square is a square and park maintained by the National Park Service located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and North Carolina Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C. The square is bounded by 4th Street to the west and 6th Street to the east.

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Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Park
Description: park in the United States of America
Also known as: “Seward Park” and “Seward Place”
Address: Washington, DC 20003

Places of Interest

Highlights include United States Capitol and Folger Shakespeare Library.

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.

John Adams Building

Library

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The John Adams Building is the second-oldest of the buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States. Built in the 1930s, it is named for John Adams, the second president, who signed the law creating the Library of Congress in 1800.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capitol Hill and Hill East.

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.

Hill East

Neighborhood

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Hill East is a residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C. located in the Southeast quadrant of the city. It is bounded by the Kingman Park neighborhood at East Capitol Street SE to the north, by the Anacostia River to the east and south, and by Capitol Hill at 15th Street to the west.

Waterfront

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The Waterfront is just south of the National Mall. In addition to beautiful views of the Washington Channel, which separates the parkland on Hains Point with the land contiguous with the National Mall, this neighborhood includes great seafood, restaurants, bars, sports stadiums, entertainment options and boat excursions.

Seward Square

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

38.88604° or 38° 53′ 10″ north

Longitude

-76.99953° or 76° 59′ 58″ west

Elevation

82 feet (25 metres)

Operator

National Park Service

Open location code

87C5V2P2+C5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 508025627

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4140456

Wikidata ID

Q7458194

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Satellite Map

Discover Seward Square from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Chinese—“Seward Square” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Seward Square”
Chinese: “苏厄德广场”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Barracks Row and Capitol Hill.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Capitol Hill United Methodist Church and Statue of Olive Risley Seward.

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