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Guglielmo Marconi

The Guglielmo Marconi Memorial is a public artwork by Attilio Piccirilli, located at the intersection of 16th and Lamont Streets NW in the neighborhood of It stands as a tribute to Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, whose work with telegraphy and radio waves led to the creation and popularity of the radio.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: statue
  • Description: artwork by Attilio Piccirilli
  • Also known as: “Guglielmo Marconi Memorial” and “Guglielmo Marconi Statue”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shrine of the Sacred Heart and DC USA.

Church
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The is a Roman Catholic parish established in 1899 in the Mount Pleasant/Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington D.C. The parish church is a large domed Byzantine structure modeled after the Cathedral in , . is situated 380 feet northeast of Guglielmo Marconi.

Shopping center
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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 A Washington City Paper poll named the "Best Designed Retail Space" of 2009. is situated 910 feet east of Guglielmo Marconi.

Work of art
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The is a public artwork by Leo Lentelli, located at the , 16th Street and Park Road Northwest, Washington, D.C. is situated 390 feet northeast of Guglielmo Marconi.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mount Pleasant and Lanier Heights.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in , located in The neighborhood is primarily residential, with restaurants and stores centered along a commercial corridor on Mt.

Neighborhood
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is a small urban neighborhood in the northwest section of It was one of the District of Columbia’s early planned subdivisions outside the original City of Washington.

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.

Guglielmo Marconi

Latitude
38.93042° or 38° 55′ 50″ north
Longitude
-77.03675° or 77° 2′ 12″ west
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
Open location code
87C4WXJ7+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358958097
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Wiki­data ID
Q5615249
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In Other Languages

From French to Russian—“Guglielmo Marconi” goes by many names.
  • French: “Guglielmo Marconi”
  • Italian: “Guglielmo Marconi”
  • Russian: “Гульельмо Маркони”

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Highlights include Mount Pleasant Library and Powell Playground.

Nearby Places

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