Robert A. Taft Memorial

The Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon is a carillon in dedicated as a memorial to U.S. Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, son of President William Howard Taft.
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  • Type: Monument
  • Description: artwork by Wheeler Williams
  • Also known as: “Robert A Taft Memorial and Carillon”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and United States Capitol.

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The , a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.

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The , often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. is situated 1,200 feet southeast of Robert A. Taft Memorial.

Museum
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The is an art museum in , United States, located on the , between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. is situated 2,600 feet west of Robert A. Taft Memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capitol Hill and Chinatown.

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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.

Neighborhood
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's 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.

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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.

Robert A. Taft Memorial

Latitude
38.89274° or 38° 53′ 34″ north
Longitude
-77.01098° or 77° 0′ 40″ west
Open location code
87C4VXVQ+3J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 66418763
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Wiki­data ID
Q7341304
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Robert A. Taft Memorial” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Robert A Taft Memorial and Carillon”
  • French: “Robert A. Taft Memorial”
  • Hebrew: “אנדרטת רוברט א. טאפט”
  • Japanese: “タフト記念碑”
  • Japanese: “ロバート・タフト記念碑”
  • Urdu: “رابرٹ اے ٹافٹ میموریل”

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