Albert Pike Memorial
The Albert Pike Memorial is a public artwork in Washington, D.C. It honors Albert Pike, a senior officer of the Confederate States Army as well as a poet, lawyer, and influential figure in the Scottish Rite of freemasonry.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Description: artwork by Gaetano Trentanove in Washington, D.C.
- Also known as: “Brigadier General Albert Pike”, “Brigadier General Albert Pike Statue”, and “Pike Statue”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and National Gallery of Art.
National Mall
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The National Mall, a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in Washington, D.C. stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.
National Gallery of Art
Museum
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. National Gallery of Art is situated 1,700 feet southwest of Albert Pike Memorial.
United States Capitol
Photo: Ottojula, Public domain.
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. United States Capitol is situated 2,600 feet southeast of Albert Pike Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East End and Downtown.
East End
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East End is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.
Downtown
Suburb
Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0.
Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States.
Capitol Hill
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Capitol Hill is a venerable neighborhood just east of the Capitol building, best known as the main residence in the city for the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government, and for the staffers who run the place.
Albert Pike Memorial
- Categories: monument, sculpture, and tourism
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.89454° or 38° 53′ 40″ northLongitude
-77.01574° or 77° 0′ 57″ westOpen location code
87C4VXVM+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 358958290OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q4967183
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Albert Pike Memorial” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “estàtua a Albert Pike”
- Cebuano: “Brigadier General Albert Pike Statue”
- Dutch: “Pike Statue”
- French: “Brigadier General Albert Pike”
- Italian: “Statua di Albert Pike”
- Spanish: “Monumento conmemorativo a Albert Pike”
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Notable Places Nearby
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Nearby Places
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