Henrietta Lacks Plaza

Henrietta Lacks Plaza is a park in Roanoke, Southwest Virginia, Virginia. Henrietta Lacks Plaza is situated nearby to the public building Roanoke Municipal Building, as well as near the courthouse United States Bankruptcy Court.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Roanoke station and Roanoke Warehouse Historic District.

Roanoke station

Railway station

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Roanoke station is a train station in Roanoke, Virginia, the current southern terminus of Amtrak's Northeast Regional line. Built in 2017, it follows several other Roanoke passenger stations that operated from the 1850s to 1979. Roanoke station is situated 1,400 feet northeast of Henrietta Lacks Plaza.

Roanoke Warehouse Historic District

Park

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Roanoke Warehouse Historic District, also known as 'Wholesale Row," is a national historic district located at Roanoke, Virginia. It encompasses five contributing buildings constructed between 1889 and 1902.

Taubman Museum of Art

Museum

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The Taubman Museum of Art, formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia, is an art museum in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Formally established in 1951, the museum was housed in several locations around Roanoke before moving in 2008 to its current home, a contemporary architecture building designed by Randall Stout. Taubman Museum of Art is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Henrietta Lacks Plaza.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wasena and Mountain View.

Wasena

Quarter

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Wasena is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in south, central Roanoke bisected by U.S. Route 221, immediately to the south of the Roanoke River.

Mountain View

Quarter

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Mountain View is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke north of the Roanoke River. It borders the neighborhoods of Norwich on the west, West End on the east, Hurt Park on the north and Raleigh Court and Wasena on the south.

West End

Suburb

West End is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke south of the Norfolk Southern railyard. It borders the neighborhoods of Hurt Park and Mountain View on the west, Downtown on the east, Gilmer on the north across the Norfolk Southern railyard and Old Southwest on the south.

Henrietta Lacks Plaza

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Roanoke, Southwest Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.27054° or 37° 16′ 14″ north

Longitude

-79.9448° or 79° 56′ 41″ west

Named after

Henrietta Lacks

Open location code

879273C4+63

OpenStreetMap ID

way 549558860

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Roanoke Municipal Building and United States Bankruptcy Court.

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