Dealey Plaza
Dealey Plaza is a city park in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is sometimes called the "birthplace of Dallas". It was also the location of the assassination of John F.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and Dallas County Courthouse.
Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Museum
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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is a museum located on the sixth floor of the Dallas County Administration Building, formerly the Texas School Book Depository, in downtown Dallas, Texas, overlooking Dealey Plaza at the intersection of Elm and Houston Streets.
Dallas County Courthouse
Courthouse
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The Dallas County Courthouse, built in 1892 of red sandstone with rusticated marble accents, is a historic governmental building located at 100 South Houston Street in Dallas, Texas.
Reunion Tower
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Reunion Tower is a 561 ft observation tower in Dallas, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. The tower is located at 300 Reunion Boulevard in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, which is named after the mid-nineteenth century commune La Reunion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West End Historic District and Downtown Dallas.
West End Historic District
Neighborhood
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The West End Historic District of Dallas, Texas, is a historic district that includes a 67.5-acre area in northwest downtown, generally north of Commerce, east of I-35E, west of Lamar and south of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway.
Downtown Dallas
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Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District of the city of Dallas. Traditionally defined as the area within the belt of freeways surrounding the centre, it is now deemed to have expanded to an area known as Uptown, north of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway thanks to the new walkable Klyde Warren Park, while in the east the center spills across US-75 into the Deep Ellum neighborhood.
Dallas
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Dallas, the ninth largest city in the United States and the third largest in the state of Texas, is an impressive melting pot of culture and character.
Dealey Plaza
- Type: Park
- Description: historic district in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
- Categories: historic district and recreation area
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.77872° or 32° 46′ 43″ northLongitude
-96.8086° or 96° 48′ 31″ westElevation
420 feet (128 metres)Open location code
8645Q5HR+FHOpenStreetMap ID
way 138670473OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Dealey Plaza” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Dealey Plaza”
- Cebuano: “Dealey Plaza Park”
- Chinese: “迪利广场”
- Dutch: “Dealey Plaza”
- Finnish: “Dealey Plaza”
- French: “Dealey Plaza”
- German: “Dealey Plaza”
- Greek: “Ντίλι Πλάζα”
- Hebrew: “דשא”
- Indonesian: “Dealey Plaza”
- Italian: “Dealey Plaza”
- Japanese: “ディーリー・プラザ”
- Korean: “딜리 플라자”
- Portuguese: “Dealey Plaza”
- Portuguese: “Praça Dealey”
- Russian: “Dealey Plaza”
- Russian: “Дили-плаза”
- Spanish: “Grassy knoll”
- Spanish: “Grassy Knoll”
- Spanish: “Loma cubierta de hierba”
- Spanish: “Monticulo de hierba”
- Spanish: “Montículo de hierba”
- Spanish: “Monticulo de Pasto de la Plaza Dealey”
- Spanish: “Montículo de Pasto de la Plaza Dealey”
- Spanish: “Monticulo herboso”
- Spanish: “Montículo herboso”
- Spanish: “Plaza Dealey”
- Swedish: “Dealey Plaza”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dealey Plaza”. Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.