Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in both the Northeast and Southeast quadrants.
Capitol Hill is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in both the Northeast and Southeast quadrants. It is bounded by 15th Street SE & NE, F Street NE, Southeast Boulevard SE, and South Capitol Street SE. Dominated by the United States Capitol, which sits on the highest point of Capitol Hill, it is one of the oldest historic districts in Washington. The neighborhood has a high concentration of rowhouses, largely dating from the 19th century. Home to around 35,000 people in just under 2 square miles (5 km2), Capitol Hill is also one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Washington. The name Capitol Hill is frequently used as a metonym for the U.S. Congress.
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Worth seeing in and around Capitol Hill
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the de facto national library of the United States. It also administers copyright law through the United States Copyright Office, and it houses the Congressional Research Service.
400 m · (de facto) national library of the United States of America · Wikipedia - 02Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is a 555-foot tall obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States and the nation's first president. Standing east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument is made of bluestone gneiss for the foundation and of granite for the construction.
3 km · obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 03Q214867
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction.
1.7 km · national art museum in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 04National Mall
The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, cultural institutions, and memorials, sculptures, and statues.
2 km · park in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 05National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year.
2.2 km · natural history museum in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 06Jefferson Memorial
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a national memorial in Washington, D.C., built in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the nation's third president. Built between 1939 and 1943, the memorial features multiple quotes from Jefferson intended to capture his ideology and philosophy, known as Jeffersonian democracy.
3.3 km · memorial in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 07United States Securities and Exchange Commission
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is a quasi independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash of 1929. Its primary purpose is to enforce laws against market manipulation.
1.1 km · U.S. federal agency that enforces securities laws and regulates securities markets and major market participants (public companies, brokers, exchanges, and asset managers) · Wikipedia - 08Capital One Arena
Capital One Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Located in the Chinatown section of the larger Penn Quarter neighborhood, the arena sits atop the Gallery Place rapid transit station of the Washington Metro. The arena was opened on December 2, 1997, as MCI Center, but renamed to Verizon Center in 2006 when MCI was acquired by Verizon Communications.
2.1 km · multi-purpose arena in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 09United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial and museum dedicated to the history and legacy of the Holocaust. Opened in Washington, D.C. in 1993, the museum explores the Holocaust through permanent and traveling exhibitions, educational programs, survivor testimonies and archival collections.
2.8 km · United States' official memorial to the Holocaust in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 10National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration. Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, its main building opened on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976.
1.7 km · aerospace museum in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Capitol Hill
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 5 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 40 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 43 km
- Stations
- Washington Union Station, 1.1 km
- Baltimore → Capitol Hill56 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · $5–7
- Richmond → Capitol Hill154 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · $14–19
- Philadelphia → Capitol Hill197 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · $17–24
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Capitol Hill
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Capitol Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inWater taxis operate between the Waterfront and Georgetown and Alexandria.
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Next door to Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill is 3 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Washington, D.C.capital city of the United States of America3.2 km
- District of Columbiafederal district of the United States of America, containing the capital city of the United States, Washington3.2 km