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| Inception | 16 July 1790 | ||||
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Washington, D.C. is the seat of the United States federal government.
Contents
Federal Building and Post Office[edit]
Vertical look from below Capitol Hill
English: Capitol under constructionMagyar: A Capitolium építés alatt
United States Capitol building under renovation February 2015
United States Capitol building under renovation February 2015
United States Capitol building under renovation February 2015
Bureau of Engraving and Printing building, Washington, D.C.
Department of Commerce
Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Labor
Federal Trade Commission
Library of Congress
National Academy of Sciences building
IRS
National Archives
U.S. Supreme Court building at sunset
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing building
Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building
U.S. Treasury building
museum & memorial[edit]
National gallery of Art, West Building
National Museum of the American Indian
United States Botanic Garden
National World War II Memorial and Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln statue
Lincoln Memorial
Jefferson Memorial
Jefferson Memorial Statue
Washington Monument
Smithsonian Castle at sunset
National Museum of the American Indian
Lincoln Memorial from the back under construction
A front view of the Arts and Industries building
A front view of the Holocaust Museum
Vietnam Veterans Memorial[edit]
Location
Satellite image
Vietnam memorial
English: Names on the wallMagyar: Nevek a falon
White House[edit]
White House, south
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White House, south
White House, north
West Wing
From Washington Mounment
The South side of the White House
South Portico of the White House
embassy[edit]
Dominican Embassy, Washington D.C.
Estonian Embassy, Washington D.C.
Boundary stones[edit]
6980 Maple Street NW
English: A close-up of the southern cornerstone of the original D.C. boundary markers. The stone is located in the sea wall of Jones Point Light.District of Columbia boundary marker at the corner of Western Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue NW, near the Friendship Heights station of the Washington Metro.
Miscellaneous[edit]
Taras Shevchenko Monument at P Street and 22nd Street
Entrance to Chinatown / Eingang zum Chinatown-Viertel
Front of a Tourmobile sign at the Lincoln Memorial stop...
...and the back of it.
Union Station in Washington, D.C.
map[edit]
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Road Map
Washington, D.C.
End[edit]
capture and destruction by the British, 1814
