Number One Observatory Circle

Number One Observatory Circle is the official residence of the vice president of the United States. Located on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in , it is sometimes informally referred to simply as "the Naval Observatory".
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  • Type: Government office
  • Description: official residence of the vice president of the United States
  • Address: 1 Observatory Circle Northwest

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Embassy of Finland and St. Nicholas Cathedral.

Government office
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is a government office, which is situated 550 feet north of Number One Observatory Circle.

Church
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in , is the primatial cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America and the seat of Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada of the Orthodox Church in America. is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Number One Observatory Circle.

Museum
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Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss. is situated 3,300 feet south of Number One Observatory Circle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Massachusetts Avenue Heights and Glover Park.

Neighborhood
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Massachusetts Heights is a small neighborhood in Northwest , dominated by the grounds of the . The neighborhood is bounded to the north by Woodley Road, to the southwest by Massachusetts Avenue, to the east by 34th Street NW, and to the west by Wisconsin Avenue.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., about a half mile north of Georgetown and just west of the and Number One Observatory Circle.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in , located in Northwest D.C. Primarily residential, hosts a commercial corridor of restaurants and shops located along Connecticut Avenue.

Number One Observatory Circle

Latitude
38.92301° or 38° 55′ 23″ north
Longitude
-77.06548° or 77° 3′ 56″ west
Inception
1893
Operator
Department of the Navy
Open location code
87C4WWFM+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
way 67829158
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
office=­government
Wiki­data ID
Q1783821
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Number One Observatory Circle” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Arabic: “دائرة المرصد رقم واحد”
  • Asturian: “Rotonda del Observatoriu númberu 1”
  • Bengali: “নাম্বার ওয়ান অবজারভেটরি সার্কেল”
  • Catalan: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Catalan: “Rotonda de l’Observatori número 1”
  • Chinese: “天文台一号圈”
  • Chinese: “天文台一號圈”
  • Chinese: “天文台圈一号”
  • Chinese: “天文台环路一号”
  • Chinese: “天文臺一號圈”
  • Chinese: “天文臺圈一號”
  • Chinese: “天文臺環路一號”
  • Czech: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Dutch: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Estonian: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Finnish: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • French: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • German: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Hebrew: “מעגל מצפה הכוכבים מס‘ 1”
  • Hebrew: “מעגל מצפה הכוכבים מס’ 1”
  • Italian: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Italian: “Numbre One Observatory Circle”
  • Japanese: “オブザーバトリー・サークル1番地”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Norwegian: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rotonda de l’Observatòri numèro 1”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੰਬਰ ਵੱਨ ਆਬਜ਼ਰਵੇਟਰੀ ਸਰਕਲ”
  • Persian: “شماره یک میدان رصدخانه”
  • Polish: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Portuguese: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Russian: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Russian: “Обсерватория Номер Один”
  • Slovenian: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Spanish: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Spanish: “One Observatory Circle”
  • Spanish: “Residencia del vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Rotonda del Observatorio numero 1”
  • Spanish: “Rotonda del Observatorio número 1”
  • Swedish: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Ukrainian: “Number One Observatory Circle”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài Quan sát Một”
  • Vietnamese: “Số một Đường vòng quanh Đài quan sát”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See and Camp Hill.

Nearby Places

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