Fort Stevens

Fort Stevens is in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Fort Stevens is situated nearby to Emory United Methodist Church, as well as near Nativity Catholic Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Stevens and Hughes Memorial Tower.

Fort Stevens

Park

Photo: D Monack, Public domain.

Fort Stevens, formerly named Fort Massachusetts, was part of the extensive fortifications built around Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.

Hughes Memorial Tower

Tower

Photo: Everything counts, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Hughes Memorial Tower is a radio tower in Washington, D.C., at 6001 Georgia Avenue, near the intersection of 9th Street NW and Peabody Street NW. At 761 ft, it is the tallest structure of any kind in the district, surpassing the Washington Monument by more than 200 ft and the WTTG Television Tower by 55 ft. Hughes Memorial Tower is situated 820 feet southeast of Fort Stevens.

Paul Public Charter School

School

Paul Public Charter School is a charter school in northwest Washington, D.C., serving students from fifth to twelfth grade. Paul Public Charter School is situated 1,500 feet southeast of Fort Stevens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brightwood and Brightwood Park.

Brightwood

Suburb

Photo: thebrightwoodian, CC BY 2.0.

Brightwood is a neighborhood in the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C. Brightwood is part of Ward 4.

Brightwood Park

Neighborhood

Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brightwood Park is a small neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C. in the United States. The neighborhood is bounded by Georgia Avenue NW to the west, Missouri Avenue NW to the northeast and Kennedy Street NW to the south.

Brookland-Petworth-Takoma

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.

Fort Stevens

Type: Sign
Categories: information and tourism
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.96443° or 38° 57′ 52″ north

Longitude

-77.02893° or 77° 1′ 44″ west

Open location code

87C4XX7C+QC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 10138129192

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

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