Taft Recreation Center

Taft Recreation Center is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Taft Recreation Center is situated nearby to the suburb Brookland, as well as near the neighborhood Woodridge.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Rainier Historic District and Dance Place.

Mount Rainier Historic District

Historic site

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The Mount Rainier Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland, which began as a streetcar suburb located northeast of Washington, D.C. The district was built on a gently rolling rural landscape from about 1900 to 1940.

Dance Place

Theater building

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Dance Place is an arts organization in the Edgewood neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C. The nearest metro station is Brookland/CUA on the Red Line.

Providence Hospital

Hospital

Providence Hospital was a 408-bed hospital located in the District of Columbia, United States. Founded in 1861 on Capitol Hill by the Roman Catholic Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, it was the longest continuously operating hospital and the last public hospital in the District.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brookland and Langdon.

Brookland

Suburb

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Brookland, Petworth, and Takoma are three relatively quiet neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park. Following the "White Flight" after desegregation and the 1968 riots, these neighborhoods were left underpopulated, overwhelmingly African-American, and much less wealthy than the Upper Northwest, just across Rock Creek Park.

Langdon

Neighborhood

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Langdon is a neighborhood located in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C. Historical surveys of D.C. recognize Langdon as a neighborhood dating back to at least 1903.

Avondale

Neighborhood

Avondale is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County Maryland, United States. It is contained between Eastern Avenue NE to the south, Queens Chapel Road to the east, and the Northwest Branch Anacostia River to the north and west.

Taft Recreation Center

Type: Park
Description: park in District of Columbia, United States of America, United States of America
Category: recreation area
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.93567° or 38° 56′ 8″ north

Longitude

-76.97775° or 76° 58′ 40″ west

Elevation

75 feet (23 metres)

Open location code

87C5W2PC+7V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358959514

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4140619

Wikidata ID

Q49568810

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In Other Languages

“Taft Recreation Center” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Taft Recreation Center”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Woodridge and North Woodridge.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dwight A. Moseley Park and Resurrection Church of God in Christ.

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