Blues Alley

Blues Alley, founded in 1965, is a jazz nightclub in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is the oldest continuing jazz supper club in the United States.

Photo: Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Nightclub
Description: American jazz nightclub in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Also known as: “Blues alley”
Address: 1073 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Vigilant Firehouse and Georgetown University.

Vigilant Firehouse

Historic building

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The Vigilant Firehouse is a historic building in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. located at 1066 Wisconsin Ave, NW, just north of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Canal Monument.

Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States, the oldest university in Washington, D.C, and the nation's first federally chartered university. Georgetown University is situated 3,700 feet northwest of Blues Alley.

Filomena Ristorante

Restaurant

Photo: Wikimiami, Public domain.

Filomena Ristorante is an Italian-American restaurant located in the historic neighborhood of Georgetown in Washington, D.C. It opened along Washington's C&O Canal in 1983.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Georgetown and Foggy Bottom.

Georgetown

Photo: Peterfitzgerald, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Georgetown is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., south of Upper Northwest and west of Dupont Circle. It is the oldest part of the city, with buildings dating back to 1751.

Foggy Bottom

Suburb

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Foggy Bottom is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, located in the city's northwest quadrant. It stretches west of the White House towards the Potomac River, north of the National Mall, east of Georgetown, south of the West End neighborhood and west of Downtown.

West End

Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The West End of Downtown D.C. is the area immediately west of downtown. This guide focuses on the areas of K Street, the West End and Foggy Bottom neighborhoods.

Blues Alley

Categories: jazz club and building
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.90465° or 38° 54′ 17″ north

Longitude

-77.06232° or 77° 3′ 44″ west

Open location code

87C4WW3Q+V3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 66693509

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=nightclub

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

Wikidata ID

Q4930444

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Blues Alley” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Blues Alley”
Basque: “Blues Alley”
Breton: “Blues Alley”
Catalan: “Blues Alley”
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Galician: “Blues Alley”
German: “Blues Alley”
Hungarian: “Blues Alley”
Indonesian: “Blues Alley”
Italian: “Blues Alley”
Low German: “Blues Alley”
Northern Sami: “Blues Alley”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Blues Alley”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blues Alley”
Polish: “Blues Alley”
Portuguese: “Blues Alley”
Romanian: “Blues Alley”
Spanish: “Blues Alley”
Swedish: “Blues Alley”
Tahitian: “Blues Alley”
Turkish: “Blues Alley”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fuel Pilates and Moca DC.

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