Embassy Row
Embassy Row is the informal name for a section of Northwest Washington, D.C., with a high concentration of embassies, diplomatic missions, and diplomatic residences.
Embassy Row is the informal name for a section of Northwest Washington, D.C., with a high concentration of embassies, diplomatic missions, and diplomatic residences. It spans Massachusetts Avenue N.W. between 18th and 35th street, bounded by Scott Circle to the south and the United States Naval Observatory to the north; the term is often applied to nearby streets and neighborhoods that also host diplomatic buildings, such as Kalorama.
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Getting to Embassy Row
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 8 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 33 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 45 km
- Baltimore → Embassy Row56 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · $5–7
- Richmond → Embassy Row805 km · quickest by air, 6h 52m · $200–300
- Philadelphia → Embassy Row14 km · quickest by road, 31 min · $1.5–2
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No local-transport research exists yet for Embassy Row
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 Embassy Row. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPotomac Riverboat Company operates water taxis from Alexandria to Georgetown ($21 one-way) with narrated tours of the monuments.
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Next door to Embassy Row
Embassy Row is 4 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.