Washington Navy Yard
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- Type: Military installation
- Description: former shipyard and ordnance plant of the United States Navy
- Also known as: “U.S. Naval Gun Factory”, “United States Naval Gun Factory”, and “United States Naval Weapons Plant”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Museum of the United States Navy and Commander, Navy Installations Command.
National Museum of the United States Navy
Museum
Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Public domain.
The National Museum of the United States Navy, or U.S. Navy Museum for short, is the flagship museum of the United States Navy and is located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., United States.
Commander, Navy Installations Command
Office
The Commander, Navy Installations Command is an Echelon II shore command responsible for all shore installations under the control of the United States Navy. Commander, Navy Installations Command is situated 360 feet southwest of Washington Navy Yard.
Nationals Park
Stadium
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Nationals Park is a baseball stadium along the Anacostia River in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals. Nationals Park is situated 3,600 feet west of Washington Navy Yard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anacostia and Fairlawn.
Anacostia
Photo: Ron Coggswell, CC BY 2.0.
Anacostia is the popular name for the huge swathe of the capital consisting of the many neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. Its heart, in the small, historic neighborhood of Anacostia, is immediately across the Frederick Douglass Bridge from the Nationals Ballpark.
Fairlawn
Neighborhood
Fairlawn is a working class and middle class residential neighborhood in southeast Washington, D.C., United States. It is bounded by Interstate 295, Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Minnesota Avenue SE, Naylor Road SE, and Good Hope Road SE.
Capitol Hill
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.
Washington Navy Yard
- Categories: shipyard and naval arsenal
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Washington Navy Yard” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Washington Vlootwerf”
- Armenian: “ԱՄՆ ռազմածովային ուժերի զենքի գործարան”
- Armenian: “Միացյալ Նահանգների ռազմածովային զենքի գործարան”
- Armenian: “Ռազմածովային նավաշինարան Վաշինգտոնում”
- Belarusian: “Navy Yard”
- Catalan: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Chinese: “华盛顿海军工厂”
- Chinese: “華盛頓海軍工廠”
- Czech: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Czech: “Washingtonská loděnice”
- Dutch: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Esperanto: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Finnish: “Washingon Navy Yard”
- Finnish: “Washingtonin laivastotukikohta”
- French: “Washington Navy Yard”
- German: “U.S. Naval Gun Factory”
- German: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Hebrew: “בסיס חיל הים של ארצות הברית”
- Indonesian: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Italian: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Japanese: “ワシントン海軍工廠”
- Korean: “워싱턴 해군 공창”
- Korean: “워싱턴 해군공창”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Norwegian: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Polish: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Russian: “Вашингтонская военно-морская верфь”
- Slovenian: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Spanish: “Astillero Naval de Washington”
- Spanish: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Swedish: “Washington Navy Yard”
- Ukrainian: “Вашингтонська військово-морська верф”
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