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Street-by-Street: Penn Quarter

By the mid-20th century, Pennsylvania Avenue, the main
route for presidential inaugural parades, had become tawdry
and run down. It is now a grand boulevard worthy of L’Enfant’s
original vision. Pennsylvania Avenue links the White House to
the US Capitol and is home to some of the city’s main sights.
Opposite the US Navy Memorial is the US National Archives,
housing original copies of the Constitution and the Declaration
of Independence. To the east are the Mellon Fountain and
the National Gallery of Art. The Ronald Reagan Building was
the site of the 1999 NATO summit.
4. Pennsylvania Avenue
Part of L’Enfant’s original plan for
the city, Pennsylvania Avenue
was the first main street to
8 Benjamin Franklin Statue be laid out in Washington.
This inventor, statesman, The thoroughfare reflects the
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Interstate Commerce
Commission
7 Old Post Office
This granite building
was completed in 1899
and was the city’s first
skyscraper. The elegant
clock tower measures
6 Ronald Reagan Building 315 ft (96 m) in height.
Built in 1997, this impressive edifice echoes the The building is in the
Classical Revival architecture of other buildings process of becoming an
in the Federal Triangle. international hotel.

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