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.

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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

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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

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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 Chinatown and East End.

Chinatown

Neighborhood

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Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown is a small, historic area of Downtown Washington, D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest. The area was once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants, but fewer than 300 remained in 2017.

East End

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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

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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.

Albert Pike Memorial

Categories: monument, sculpture, and tourism
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.89454° or 38° 53′ 40″ north

Longitude

-77.01574° or 77° 0′ 57″ west

Open location code

87C4VXVM+RP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358958290

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

OpenStreetMap attribute

artwork_type=statue

Wikidata 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

Highlights include District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services - Fire Prevention Division and Metropolitan Police Headquarters.

Nearby Places

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