Grant Circle

Grant Circle is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Grant Circle is situated nearby to Petworth United Methodist Church, as well as near Saint Gabriel Catholic Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home and Sherman Circle.

President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home

Museum

Photo: Mvincec, Public domain.

President Lincoln's Cottage is a historic home used by Abraham Lincoln on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, known today as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, near the Petworth neighborhood in Washington, D.C. In 2000 it was designated a national monument called President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument. President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home is situated 2,200 feet east of Grant Circle.

Sherman Circle

Park

Photo: Whubsch, CC0.

Sherman Circle is an urban park and traffic circle in the Northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Petworth at the intersection of Illinois Avenue, Kansas Avenue, 7th Street, and Crittenden Street NW.

District of Columbia Public Library-Petworth Neighborhood Branch

Library

Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Petworth Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. It is located at 4200 Kansas Avenue NW. District of Columbia Public Library-Petworth Neighborhood Branch is situated 2,000 feet west of Grant Circle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Petworth and Fort Totten.

Petworth

Neighborhood

Photo: Dclemens1971, CC BY 4.0.

Brookland, Petworth, and Takoma are three relatively quiet neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park. Following the "White Flight" after desegregation and the 1968 riots, these neighborhoods were left underpopulated, overwhelmingly African-American, and much less wealthy than the Upper Northwest, just across Rock Creek Park.

Fort Totten

Suburb

Photo: Egunt07, CC BY 3.0.

Fort Totten is a neighborhood located in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C. Fort Totten is located between Riggs Road N.E. to the north, Bates Rd N.E, Allison Street N.E, and the southern end of Fort Totten Park to the south, the Washington Metro Red Line tracks to the east, and North Capitol Street NW to the west.

Grant Circle

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.94312° or 38° 56′ 35″ north

Longitude

-77.01926° or 77° 1′ 9″ west

Open location code

87C4WXVJ+67

OpenStreetMap ID

way 41964998

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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