Places to go in Downtown.

Penn Quarter, the White House, downtown museums. There are four places here.

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The White House

Washington, DC · DowntownFree

The most famous address in America has sat at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since John Adams moved in back in 1800, and the columned North Portico with its fountain and seasonal…

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National Archives Museum

Washington, DC · DowntownFree

Behind the 72 Corinthian columns of John Russell Pope's 1935 temple on Constitution Avenue, the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom holds the actual Declaration of Independence…

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Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Washington, DC · Downtown

Walt Whitman called the Old Patent Office Building, now home to the National Portrait Gallery at 8th and G Streets NW, "the noblest of Washington buildings." During the Civil War…

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Ford's Theatre

Washington, DC · Downtown$

The red brick on Tenth Street looks ordinary until you remember what happened in the box above the stage on an April night in 1865. Inside, the restored auditorium still hosts…