Cascading Waterfall
Cascading Waterfall is a public art work by American artist John Joseph Earley, located in Meridian Hill Park, Washington, DC. The fountain, reminiscent of 16th century Italian villas, focuses primarily on thirteen large semi-circular basins forming a water cascade that overlooks the historic park.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Meridian Hill Park and Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc.
Meridian Hill Park
Park
Photo: SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, is an urban park in Washington, D.C., located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood that straddles the border between Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.
Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc
Work of art
Photo: Timothy Vollmer, CC BY 2.0.
Joan of Arc is a 1922 cast of the 1896 statue sculpted by French artist Paul Dubois. It is located in the center of the grand terrace at Meridian Hill Park, an urban park in Washington, D.C. The bronze statue rests on a granite base designed by McKim, Mead & White.
St. Augustine Catholic Church
Church
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Augustine Catholic Church is a Catholic parish in Washington, D.C. It is considered by many to be the "Mother Church of Black Catholics", as the first Black parish in the district and the administrator of D.C.'s oldest surviving Black school. St. Augustine Catholic Church is situated 800 feet southeast of Cascading Waterfall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan.
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.Adams Morgan
Neighborhood
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.
Cascading Waterfall
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: artwork by John Joseph Earley and George Burnap
- Categories: sculpture, fountain, and body of water
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.92013° or 38° 55′ 13″ northLongitude
-77.03565° or 77° 2′ 8″ westOpen location code
87C4WXC7+3POpenStreetMap ID
way 40770711OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=waterfallWikidata ID
Q5048221
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to French—“Cascading Waterfall” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “نافورة الشلالات”
- French: “Cascading Waterfall”
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