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69000302. Designated. March 24, 1969. Location. Washington Union Station, known locally as Union Station, is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, it is Amtrak 's headquarters, the railroad's second-busiest station, and North America's 10th-busiest ...
Description. Columbus Circle with Union Station in the early 20th century. The Columbus Fountain in 1919. Columbus Fountain is a semicircular double-basin fountain with a shaft (h. 45 ft.) in the center. The front of the shaft bears a full-length portrait of Christopher Columbus (approx. h. 15 ft.) wearing a mantle, staring forward with his ...
80004523 [1] Added to NRHP. April 9, 1980. Columbus Circle, also known as Union Station Plaza or Columbus Plaza, is a traffic circle at the intersection of Delaware, Louisiana and Massachusetts Avenues and E and First Streets, Northeast in Washington, D.C. It is located in front of Union Station right next to the grounds of the United States ...
Union Station (Washington Metro) / 38.897723°N 77.006745°W / 38.897723; -77.006745. Union Station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line. The station is located in the Northeast quadrant of the city under the western end of Union Station, the main train station for Washington. It has a single underground ...
Nearly $9 billion Union Station renovation could take over a decade. Fox local. Sylvia Mphofe. May 15, 2024 at 3:39 PM. WASHINGTON - Plans to renovate D.C.'s Union Station take new steps forward.
Freedom Bell, American Legion, is a public artwork located at Union Station in Washington, D.C., United States. A replica of the Liberty Bell, Freedom Bell, American Legion was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database in 1985. [1]
Marble Christopher Columbus Statue (1978) located at Washington Square/Union Station; Maryland. Baltimore. Columbus Obelisk (1792), located in Herring Run Park. Destroyed by vandals in 2017. Christopher Columbus Monument (1984). Located at Eastern Ave & President Street adjacent to Little Italy, Baltimore. Pulled down by protesters on July 4 ...
The National Visitor Center was an ill-fated [1] attempt to repurpose Washington, D.C. 's Union Station as an information center for tourists visiting the United States Capitol and other Washington attractions. It opened for the Bicentennial celebrations in 1976, but it never was able to attract enough crowds to sustain its operating costs, and ...