Naval History and Heritage Command

Naval History and Heritage Command is a building in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic which is located on Dahlgren Avenue Southeast. Naval History and Heritage Command is situated nearby to Admiral Leutze Park, as well as near West Leutze Park.

Type: Building
Also known as: “Building 57”
Address: 1306 Dahlgren Avenue Southeast

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Museum of the United States Navy and Nationals Park.

National Museum of the United States Navy

Museum

Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Public domain.

The National Museum of the United States Navy, or U.S. Navy Museum for short, is the flagship museum of the United States Navy and is located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., United States. National Museum of the United States Navy is situated 350 feet southwest of Naval History and Heritage Command.

Nationals Park

Stadium

Photo: Something Original, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Nationals Park is a baseball stadium along the Anacostia River in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals. Nationals Park is situated 3,700 feet west of Naval History and Heritage Command.

Commander, Navy Installations Command

Office

The Commander, Navy Installations Command is an Echelon II shore command responsible for all shore installations under the control of the United States Navy. Commander, Navy Installations Command is situated 640 feet southwest of Naval History and Heritage Command.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Anacostia and Fairlawn.

Anacostia

Photo: Ron Coggswell, CC BY 2.0.

Anacostia is the popular name for the huge swathe of the capital consisting of the many neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. Its heart, in the small, historic neighborhood of Anacostia, is immediately across the Frederick Douglass Bridge from the Nationals Ballpark.

Fairlawn

Neighborhood

Photo: Egunt07, CC BY 3.0.

Fairlawn is a working class and middle class residential neighborhood in southeast Washington, D.C., United States. It is bounded by Interstate 295, Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Minnesota Avenue SE, Naylor Road SE, and Good Hope Road SE.

Capitol Hill

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Capitol Hill 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.

Naval History and Heritage Command

Category: historic site
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.87463° or 38° 52′ 29″ north

Longitude

-76.9946° or 76° 59′ 41″ west

Open location code

87C5V2F4+V5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 67260164

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=maritime

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