Twelfth Street YMCA Building

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Places of Interest Nearby

Lincoln Theatre

Theater building

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Lincoln Theatre is a historic theater in Washington, D.C., located at 1215 U Street, next to Ben's Chili Bowl. The theater, located on "Washington's Black Broadway", served the city's African American community when segregation kept them out of other venues. Lincoln Theatre is situated 880 feet north of Twelfth Street YMCA Building.

Ben’s Chili Bowl

Fast food restaurant

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Ben's Chili Bowl is a restaurant in Washington, D.C., United States, located at 1213 U Street, next to Lincoln Theatre, in the U Street Corridor, also known as the Cardozo/Shaw neighborhood in Northwest D.C. Ben’s Chili Bowl is situated 790 feet north of Twelfth Street YMCA Building.

Whitelaw Hotel

Building

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The Whitelaw Hotel is a historic structure located in the U Street Corridor in Northwest Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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Logan Circle

Neighborhood

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Logan Circle is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The majority of Logan Circle is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.

Shaw

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Shaw is a neighborhood in north-central Washington D.C. just east of Dupont Circle and south of Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. Although it has a diverse population, Shaw is distinctive from the adjacent areas due to its African-American heritage.

Columbia Heights

Suburb

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Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and Columbia Heights are three bordering neighborhoods in Washington DC, each with a different character, but united in an unmistakable sense of dynamism, diversity, youth, and nightlife.

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