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Website. www .npg .si .edu. The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a historic art museum between 7th, 9th, F, and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans.
The Eastern Market is a public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., housed in a 19th-century brick building. Eastern Market was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located on 7th Street, S.E., a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol between North Carolina Avenue SE and C Street SE.
Museum of the Bible. / 38.8847222°N 77.0169444°W / 38.8847222; -77.0169444. The Museum of the Bible is a museum in Washington D.C., owned by Museum of the Bible, Inc., a non-profit organization established in 2010 by the Green family. [3] : 16 The museum documents the narrative, history, and impact of the Bible.
Madame Tussauds Washington D.C. was a wax museum located in Washington D.C., the capital city of the United States. The attraction opened in October 2007 and became the 12th Madame Tussauds venue worldwide, and featured wax sculptures of famous figures from politics, culture, sports, music and television. In comparison to other Madame Tussauds ...
In 1973, WMATA acquired DC Transit along with other bus companies to form its current Metrobus system. [4] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, service has been mostly reduced to Sunday service schedules during the weekdays with select routes suspended from March 18 until August 22, 2020. Routes 54, 70, 90, A6, A8, B2, H4, S4, V4, W4, and X2 were the ...
Fruit Grower's Express. Wooden FGE reefer car at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Fruit Growers Express ( FGE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that began as a produce-hauling subsidiary of Armour and Company 's private refrigerator car line. Armour controlled both the packing operations and the transport insulated railroad ...
Trinity Washington University is a private Catholic university in Washington, D.C. The university was founded as Trinity College by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as the nation's first Catholic liberal arts college for women. Trinity was chartered by an Act of Congress on August 20, 1897.
Interstate 495 Capital Beltway Capital Beltway highlighted in red Route information Auxiliary route of I-95 Maintained by VDOT and MDSHA Length 64 mi (103 km) Existed 1961–present Component highways I-495 entire route I-95 From Springfield, VA to College Park, MD going counterclockwise Tourist routes Star-Spangled Banner Scenic Byway NHS Entire route Major junctions Beltway around Washington ...