Fort Stevens Ridge
Fort Stevens Ridge is a neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C.
Fort Stevens Ridge is a neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C. built during the 1920s. The neighborhood comprises about 50 acres (0.20 km2) and is very roughly bounded by Peabody Street, Fifth Street, Underwood Street, and Ninth Street. As of the 2010 census, the neighborhood had 2,597 residents. It was named for nearby Fort Stevens, a Civil War-era fort used to defend the nation's capital from invasion by Confederate soldiers.
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Worth seeing in and around Fort Stevens Ridge
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.
- 01Archdiocese of Washington
The Archdiocese of Washington is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The archdiocese is home to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
3.5 km · archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church serving Washington, D.C., and five counties of Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 02Rock Creek Park
Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Created by Act of Congress in 1890, the park comprises 1,754 acres, generally along Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River. More than two million people visit the park each year, many to use recreation facilities such as its golf course; hiking, biking, and equestrian trails; tennis center; nature center; playgrounds, and picnic facilities.
2.9 km · urban park in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 03Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts and historic house museum in Washington, D.C. The former residence of businesswoman and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood is known for its decorative arts collection that focuses heavily on the House of Romanov, including two Fabergé eggs. Other highlights are 18th and 19th-century French art and one of the country's finest orchid collections.
3.6 km · decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., USA · Wikipedia - 04President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home
President Lincoln's Cottage is a historic home used by Abraham Lincoln on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, known today as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, near the Petworth neighborhood in Washington, D.C. In 2000 it was designated a national monument called President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument. President Abraham Lincoln and his family resided seasonally on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home to escape the heat and political pressure of downtown Washington, as did President James Buchanan before him.
2.8 km · national monument in the United States · Wikipedia - 05Rock Creek Cemetery
Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre cemetery in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington.
2.1 km · garden cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 06Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
The Saint John Paul II National Shrine is a national shrine in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. It is a place of prayer for Catholics and welcomes people of all faiths.
3.5 km · national shrine in Washington, D.C · Wikipedia - 07William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
The William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center is a tennis venue located in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., United States It is named after William H. G. FitzGerald, a Washington-based private investor who was active in philanthropies and served as United States Ambassador to Ireland. It houses 15 hard courts and 10 clay courts.
1.8 km · tennis venue in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 08Washington Adventist University
Washington Adventist University is a private Seventh-day Adventist university in Takoma Park, Maryland.
3 km · university in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 09Fort Stevens
Fort Stevens, formerly named Fort Massachusetts, was part of the extensive fortifications built around Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.
600 m · historic fort in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 10Sherman Circle
Sherman Circle is an urban park and traffic circle in the Northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Petworth at the intersection of Illinois Avenue, Kansas Avenue, 7th Street, and Crittenden Street NW. The circle is named in honor of Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. Administered by the National Park Service's Rock Creek Park unit, Sherman Circle together with four surrounding triangular parks covers 3.44 acres and is considered by the National Park Service a "cultural landscape." What became Sherman Circle and the four surrounding reservations were first documented in 1889 as part of the original plat of Petworth.
2.1 km · traffic circle and neighborhood park in Washington DC · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fort Stevens Ridge
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 13 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 38 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 38 km
- Stations
- Fort Totten, 2.3 km · Silver Spring, 3.2 km · Takoma, 1.2 km · Georgia Avenue–Petworth, 3.3 km · Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, 2.7 km
- Richmond → Fort Stevens Ridge3909 km · quickest by air, 16h 3m · $670–990
- Philadelphia → Fort Stevens Ridge3960 km · quickest by air, 14h 16m · $670–980
- Norfolk → Fort Stevens Ridge4038 km · quickest by air, 15h 58m · $670–990
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- Go nextHarpers Ferry — West of Frederick on US-340, famous for Civil War history and natural beauty.
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Next door to Fort Stevens Ridge
Fort Stevens Ridge is 8 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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