What’s in a Name

What’s in a Name is in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. What’s in a Name is situated nearby to the fountain Senator Francis Newlands Statue, as well as near the park Chevy Chase Circle.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include District of Columbia Public Library-Chevy Chase Neighborhood Branch Library and Avalon Theatre.

District of Columbia Public Library-Chevy Chase Neighborhood Branch Library

Library

The Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is located at 5625 Connecticut Avenue NW. District of Columbia Public Library-Chevy Chase Neighborhood Branch Library is situated 740 feet southeast of What’s in a Name.

Avalon Theatre

Movie theater

Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Avalon Theatre, formerly Chevy Chase Theatre, is an historic structure located in the Chevy Chase neighborhood in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. The Classical Revival building was designed by the architectural firm of Upman and Adams and completed in 1922. Avalon Theatre is situated 780 feet south of What’s in a Name.

Chevy Chase Club

Golf course

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Chevy Chase is the colloquial name of an area that includes a town, several incorporated villages, and an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland; and one adjoining neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C. Most of these derive from a late-19th-century effort to create a new suburb that its developer dubbed Chevy Chase after a colonial land patent.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chevy Chase Village and Chevy Chase.

Chevy Chase Village

Village

Photo: Lorax, CC BY 4.0.

Chevy Chase Village is an incorporated municipality in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, bordering Washington, D.C. The population was 2,049 as of the 2020 census.

Chevy Chase

Suburb

Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Chevy Chase is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C. It borders Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Friendship Heights

Suburb

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Friendship Heights is an urban commercial and residential neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland. Though its borders are not clearly defined, Friendship Heights consists roughly of the neighborhoods and commercial…

What’s in a Name

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

38.96741° or 38° 58′ 3″ north

Longitude

-77.07656° or 77° 4′ 36″ west

Open location code

87C4XW8F+X9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 12373842114

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Senator Francis Newlands Statue and Chevy Chase Circle.

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