Francis Asbury Memorial
Francis Asbury, also known as the Francis Asbury Memorial, is a public equestrian statue, by American artist Henry Augustus Lukeman, located at 16th Street and Mt.Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: artwork by Henry Augustus Lukeman
- Also known as: “Asbury Memorial”, “Bishop Asbury Statue”, and “Francis Asbury Statue”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Baptist Memorial Church and District of Columbia Public Library-Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Branch.
National Baptist Memorial Church
Church
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National Baptist Memorial Church is a Baptist church in Washington, D.C. It is located at the intersection of 16th Street NW and Columbia Road, where the Mt.
District of Columbia Public Library-Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Branch
Library
Photo: JuliaC2006, CC BY 2.0.
The Mount Pleasant Library at 1600 Lamont Street, NW in Washington, DC is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that opened in May 1925, and is the third oldest public library building still in use in Washington. District of Columbia Public Library-Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Branch is situated 1,000 feet north of Francis Asbury Memorial.
DC USA
Shopping center
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DC USA is an 890,000-square-foot vertical power center, i.e. a multilevel enclosed urban shopping center anchored by big box stores. It is located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. A Washington City Paper poll named DC USA the "Best Designed Retail Space" of 2009. DC USA is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Francis Asbury Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights and Lanier Heights.
Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights
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.Lanier Heights
Neighborhood
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lanier Heights is a small urban neighborhood in the northwest section of Washington, D.C. It was one of the District of Columbia’s early planned subdivisions outside the original City of Washington.
Mount Pleasant
Neighborhood
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Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The neighborhood is primarily residential, with restaurants and stores centered along a commercial corridor on Mt.
Francis Asbury Memorial
- Categories: sculpture, memorial, and tourism
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.92769° or 38° 55′ 40″ northLongitude
-77.03671° or 77° 2′ 12″ westElevation
197 feet (60 metres)Open location code
87C4WXH7+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 358956183OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q5480036
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“Francis Asbury Memorial” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Francis Asbury Statue”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تمثال فرانسيس اسبورى التذكارى”
- French: “Francis Asbury”
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