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HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This guide helps you to get the most from photographs, illustrations and maps. Farther
your stay in Wash ington, DC. It provides Afield looks at sights outside the city center,
detailed practical information and expert and Beyond Washington, DC explores other
recommendations. Introducing Washington, places within easy reach of the city. Carefully
DC maps the city and the region, sets it researched suggestions for restaurants, hotels,
in its historical and cultural context, and enter tainment, and shopping are found in the
gives an overview of the main attractions. Travelers’ Needs section, while the Survival
Washington, DC Area by Area is the main Guide contains useful advice on everything
sight seeing section, giving detailed from changing money to traveling on
information on all the major sights, with Washington’s Metrorail system.

Washinton, DC Area by Area
The center of Washington sights to be covered. Sights are your way about the area section
has been divided into five numbered and clearly located is made easy by a numbering
sightseeing areas. Each section on an Area Map. After this comes system. This refers to the order
opens with a portrait of the a large-scale Street-by-Street Map in which the sights are described
area, summing up its character focusing on the most interest- on the pages that complete
and history and listing all of the ing part of the area. Finding the section.

Color-coding on each page makes
W ASHINGT ON , DC AREA B Y AREA  107
the area easy to find in the book.
THE WHITE HOUSE
AND FOGGY BOTTOM
The official residence of the President, the Daughters of the American Revolution building
White House is one of the most distinguished and the Corcoran Gallery. East of the White
buildings in DC and was first inhabited in 1800. House is the Foggy Bottom area, which was
Although burned by the British during the War built on swampland. Notable edifices here Recommended restaurants in the
of 1812, most of today’s building remains as it include the Kennedy Center, the State Depart­
was planned. Other buildings surrounding the ment building, and the notorious Watergate
White House are worth a visit, such as the Complex, focus of the 1970s Nixon scandal. area are listed and plotted on the map.
Sights at a Glance
Galleries w Federal Reserve Building Restaurants see pp185–7
5 Renwick Gallery e National Academy of Sciences 1 Ancora
7 Corcoran Gallery of Art 3 Bayou
2 Aroma
r State Department
Squares Performing Arts Center 4 Blue Duck Tavern
3 Lafayette Square o Kennedy Center pp120–21 5 The Bombay Club
u Washington Circle Church 6 Café Lombardy
Historic Buildings y St. Mary’s Episcopal Church 7 City Bites A locator map shows you where
8 Firefly
4 Hay-Adams Hotel 9 Founding Farmers
6 Eisenhower Executive Office 10 Georgia Brown’s
Building you are in relation to surrounding
8 Octagon Museum 11 Marcel’s
12 McFadden’s
9 Daughters of the American 13 One Fish, Two Fish
Revolution
t George Washington University 14 Potbelly Sandwich Shop areas. The area of the Street-by-
15 Rasika West End
i Watergate Complex 16 Roof Terrace Restaurant
Official Buildings 17 Rural Society Street Map is highlighted.
1 The White House pp110–13 See also Street Finder maps 2, 3 18 Vidalia
2 Treasury Building 19 Westend Bistro
0 Organization of the American 0 meters 500
States
q Department of the Interior 0 yards 500
300 yards M NW
M STREET NW NW NW STREET NW 725 yards
26TH ST NW ST NW L ST 12 •13 NW NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE NW ST L STREET STREET STREET Farragut North NW
NW 25TH 21ST K 20TH STREET 19TH NW Numbered circles pinpoint all the
ST FOGGY Foggy P E N N S Y L V A N I A Farragut West FARRAGUT McPHERSON
SQUARE
SQUARE
27TH BOTTOM NW Bottom EYE ST NW EYE NW STREET NW McPherson Square listed sights on the area map. The
66 NW GWU NW NW A V E N U E H STREET NW
STREET H STREET NW JACKSON PLACE JACKSON PLACE Octagon Museum, for example, is 8
24TH STREET STREET STREET N W PENNSYLVANIA
23RD G NW STREET STREET NW NW NW A VENUE NW
22ND F STREET NW NW
STREET 20TH 19TH
NW E STREET NW
P ARK RA WLING STREET STREET STREET
V I R G I N I A A V E N U E
STREET 18TH 17TH THE
NW
C STREET 21ST N W ELLIPSE 15TH
23RD ELLIPSE R OA D N W
ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY NW
CONSTITUTION AVENUE NW
The south portico of The White House For keys to symbols see back flap
108  W ASHINGT ON , DC AREA B Y AREA THE WHITE HOUSE AND FOGGY BO T T OM  109
Area Map Street-by-Street: Around The White House houses, this luxurious hotel has been GEORGETOWN
4 Hay-Adams Hotel
Formed by the joining of two town
6 Eisenhower Old
1For easy reference, the sights in The area surrounding the White House is filled with grand Although it was poorly received the scene of political activity since it THE WHITE HOUSE
Executive Office Building
opened in the 1920s.
architecture and political history, and the vistas from the
AND FOGGY BOTTOM
Ellipse lawn are breathtaking. It is worth spending a day
exploring the area and seeing some of its buildings, such as on its completion in 1888, this Potomac River THE MALL
attractive building now houses
each area are numbered and the Treasury Building with its statue of Alexander Hamilton staff of the Executive branch. Locator Map
(the first Secretary of the Treasury) and the Eisenhower Old
Executive Office Building. The buildings of the Daughters of
See Street Finder maps 2 & 3
located on an area map. To help the American Revolution (DAR) and the Organization of the H S T R E E T H S T R E E T
American States (OAS) both offer the visitor
an insight into the pride the nation
the visitor, the map also shows takes in its past. M A D I S O N P L A C E A V E N U E
5 Renwick Gallery
The gallery, is part of the
Metrorail stations. Museum. The inscription above J A C K S O N P L A C E
Smithsonian American Art
the entrance of the building N S Y L V A N I A
reads “Dedicated to Art.” P E N
8 Octagon Museum 7 . Corcoran Gallery of Art
At one time James Madison’s home, The gallery (closed for renovation) will
this building has had a varied feature select pieces from the original
history, functioning as a hospital Corcoran collection and the National
and a school, among other things. Gallery of Art, once it reopens. It will 3 Lafayette Square
Octagon Museum 8 is shown pieces from traveling shows curated Named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a
also serve as a space for exhibiting
Revolutionary War hero, this leafy square has
by the National Gallery of Art.
the seventh president, sculpted by Clark Mills.
on this map as well. A. HAMILTON PLACE at its center this statue of Andrew Jackson,
9 DAR Building S T A T E P L A C E E X E C U T I V E A V E N U E E S T R E E T
This beautiful N E W Y O R K A V E N U E
Stars indicate the sights Neo-Classical
building is one
of three founded
that no visitor should miss. by the historical E S T R E E T
organization, the
Daughters of the
American Revolution. 2 . Treasury Building
Widely regarded as the most
structure in the city, this
Key T H E E L L I P S E 1 5 T H S T R E E T impressive Neo-Classical
Suggested route building took over 60 years
D S T R E E T 1 7 T H S T R E E T to complete.
A suggested route for a walk
takes in the most attractive and Queen Isabella of Spain C S T R E E T
0 OAS Building
The central statue of
stands in front of this
interesting streets in the area. mansion. Built in 1910, it 1 . The White House
Spanish Col onial-style
One of the most famous sights
in Washington, DC, this has been
houses the Organization 0 meters 100 the President’s official residence
of American States. C O N S T I T U T I O N A V E N U E 0 yards 100 since the 1800s.
Street-by-Street Map
2This gives a bird’s-eye view of the heart of each sightseeing
area. The numbering of the sights ties in with the area map
and the fuller descriptions on the pages that follow.
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