Fairmount Heights Historic District

Worth seeing in and around Fairmount Heights Historic District

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.

1. 01
   Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens

   Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens is a National Park Service site located in the north eastern corner of Washington, D.C., near the Maryland state border. Nestled near the banks of the Anacostia River and directly west of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens preserves a plethora of rare waterlilies and lotuses in the cultivated ponds near the river.

   3 km · park in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Woodlawn Cemetery

   Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. The 22.5-acre cemetery contains approximately 36,000 burials, nearly all of them African Americans.

   2.7 km · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
3. 03
   First Baptist Church of Deanwood

   First Baptist Church of Deanwood is a Baptist church at 1008 45th Street in Northeast, Washington, D.C., in the Deanwood neighborhood. It was built in 1938, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

   2 km · church in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Fort Dupont Park

   Fort Dupont Park is a 376-acre wooded park under the management of the National Park Service located in Washington, DC. The name of the park comes from the old Civil War earthwork fort that lies within the park. The fort was one of several designed to defend Washington from a Confederate attack during the Civil War.

   3.9 km · park in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Benning / Dorothy I. Height Neighborhood Library

   The Benning / Dorothy I. Height Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library system, located in Benning, a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C. The site at 3935 Benning Road NE was previously home to a library designed by Clark T. Harmon as part of a D.C. Public Works Program initiative, a one-story brick-and-concrete building that opened in 1962. The library had played an important role in the surrounding community since its inception.

   2.9 km · public library in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Bladensburg Dueling Grounds

   Bladensburg Dueling Grounds is a small spit of land, a fraction of its original size, along Dueling Creek, formerly in the town of Bladensburg, Maryland, and now within the town of Colmar Manor, just to the northeast of Washington, D.C., United States. Dueling Creek, formerly known as '"Blood Run" and "The Dark and Bloody Grounds", is a tributary of the Anacostia River, which was formerly, called the East Branch Potomac River.

   3.5 km · site where more than 50 duels were fought during the 1800s in Maryland, US · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Amtrak Railroad Anacostia Bridge

   The Amtrak Railroad Anacostia Bridge is a railway bridge that crosses the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It carries Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and MARC's Penn Line passenger rail traffic. The bridge was damaged by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane, causing the famous "Crescent Limited wreck".

   3 km · bridge in United States of America · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Deanwood Neighborhood Library

   The Deanwood Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library in the Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is located at 1350 49th Street NE, within a community center that opened in July 2010 at a cost of $32 million and also includes a swimming pool, a gym, and facilities for child care and seniors. Construction on the 63,000-square-foot facility began in December 2008.

   1.7 km · public library in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Capitol View Neighborhood Library

   The Capitol View Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library System. It was opened to the public on January 23, 1965, after 10 years of advocacy by the Capitol View community.

   1.8 km · public library in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
10. 10
    National Capital Parks-East

    National Capital Parks-East is an administrative grouping of multiple National Park Service sites east of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., and in the state of Maryland.

    3.9 km · subregion of the United States National Park Service's National Capital Region · Wikipedia

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Getting to Fairmount Heights Historic District

Airports

Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 12 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 37 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 47 km

Stations

Addison Road, 2.4 km · Benning Road, 2.2 km · Deanwood, 1.9 km · Minnesota Avenue, 2.7 km

• Dulles → Fairmount Heights Historic District

  450 km · quickest by air, 4h 43m · $180–270
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• Richmond → Fairmount Heights Historic District

  563 km · quickest by air, 7h 12m · $220–320
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• Philadelphia → Fairmount Heights Historic District

  568 km · quickest by air, 7h 12m · $210–310
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