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Maine Avenue (DC)
Maine Avenue is a diagonal avenue in the Southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Maine Avenue connects Independence Avenue with M Street SW, and has an interchange with Interstate 395. Route description Maine Avenue begins at 17th Street SW and Independence Avenue SW and continues southeast, parallelling the Tidal Basin to 12th Street SW where it crosses under Interstate 395. Continuing southeast, it runs parallel to the Washington Channel and Water Street SW, where it crosses 7th Street. At 6th Street SW, Maine Avenue ends, becoming M Street SW. Points of interest Points of interest along Maine Avenue include Arena Stage and the Southwest Waterfront, home of the Maine Avenue Fish Market. History In 1861, Maine Avenue was a small street north and parallel to Maryland Avenue near Capitol Hill. Interstate 695 was planned to be extended west of Interstate 395 along Maine Avenue. That project, like many proposed interstate highways in the District of Columbia, was cancele ...
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Washington Channel
The Washington Channel is a channel parallel to the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It is located between the Southwest Waterfront on the east side and East Potomac Park on the west side. The channel is long, receives outflow from the Tidal Basin at its north end, and empties into the Anacostia River at Hains Point at its south end. The channel's depth ranges from to . The Washington Channel's east bank is lined with restaurants, inns, and marinas including Washington Marina, Gangplank Marina (the only liveaboard marina in the District of Columbia), and Capital Yacht Club. The Maine Avenue Fish Market is situated at the north end of the channel, south of the 14th Street Bridge complex. The ''Titanic'' Memorial, Fort Lesley J. McNair, the National Defense University, and James Creek Marina are located near the south end of the channel. As of August 2010, USS ''Sequoia''—a former United States presidential yacht—is docked at a pier in the Washington Channel. Transfe ...
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Delilah Pierce
Delilah Williams Pierce (March 3, 1904 – 1992) was an African American artist, curator and educator based in Washington, District of Columbia. Pierce is best known for abstract paintings depicting the natural world. Her work also includes portraiture, landscapes, and still lifes. One of her works is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. A month before her death in 1992, she obtained an honorary degree from the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC (DHL). She supported local education. Education * Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C. * 1923 Teachers Certification, Miner Normal School, Washington, D.C. * 1925 Domestic Art Education Diploma, Miner Normal School, Washington, D.C. * 1931 BS, Howard University, Washington, D.C. * 1939 MA, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York Notable works *''DC Waterfront, Maine Avenue ''DC Waterfront, Maine Avenue'' is a painting by Delilah Pierce. It is in the collec ...
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DC Waterfront, Maine Avenue
''DC Waterfront, Maine Avenue'' is a painting by Delilah Pierce. It is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. in the United States. Pierce used oil paint on board, in 1957, to depict Maine Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Maine Avenue along the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, D.C. The painting depicts multiple buildings in the background, one with umbrellas in front of it. In the foreground, Pierce painted boats in the Potomac River, dockside. ''DC Waterfront, Maine Avenue'' was purchased by the Smithsonian in 2009 using Deaccession Funds. The artwork was included in the 2005 exhibit, ''Delilah W. Pierce: Natural Perspective'', at the University of Maryland University College. References

1957 paintings Paintings in the Smithsonian American Art Museum Maritime paintings {{20C-painting-stub ...
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Interstate 695 (District Of Columbia)
Interstate 695 (I-695), also known as the Southeast Freeway, is a auxiliary Interstate Highway in Washington, D.C. It travels from an interchange with I-395 south of the US Capitol building east then south across the 11th Street Bridges to an interchange with I-295 and District of Columbia Route 295 (DC 295) in Anacostia. Access also exists from eastbound I-695 to Pennsylvania Avenue at Barney Circle, just northwest of the John Philip Sousa Bridge. Stub ramps at Pennsylvania Avenue, once meant to continue the freeway (as part of I-295) to I-95 and US Route 50 (US 50) northeast of Washington Union Station, now provide access to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. Though the I-695 designation has existed since near the birth of the Interstate Highway System, the route was only signed in late 2011 along with the 11th Street Bridges reconstruction project. The route number is planned to be decommissioned in favor of an extension of the I-395 designation, ...
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Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill is a neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in both the Northeast, Washington, D.C., Northeast and Southeast, Washington, D.C., Southeast quadrants. It is bounded by 14th Street SE & NE, F Street NE, Southeast Boulevard SE, and South Capitol Street SE. Dominated by the United States Capitol, which sits on the highest point of Capitol Hill, it is one of the oldest historic districts in Washington. The neighborhood has a high concentration of rowhouses, largely dating from the 19th century. Home to around 35,000 people in just under , Capitol Hill is also one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Washington. The name ''Capitol Hill'' is frequently used as a metonym for the United States Congress, U.S. Congress. Capitol Hill is famed as a center of the United States Government, United States government, home to numerous important institutions including the U.S. Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme ...
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Maine Avenue Fish Market
The Maine Avenue Fish Market, also known as the Municipal Fish Market, the Fish Wharf, or simply, the Wharf (Washington, D.C.), the Wharf, is an open-air fish market, seafood market in Washington, D.C. (southwest), Southwest Washington, D.C., a local landmark and one of the few that remain on the east coast of the United States. Opened in 1805, it is the oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States, founded 17 years earlier than New York City's Fulton Fish Market.New Fulton Fish Market Cooperative
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Located on the Southwest Waterfront of Washington, D.C., in the shadow of Interstate 395 (District of Columbia-Virginia), Interstate 395, the Maine Avenue Fish Market stands as a cultural relic popular with locals and little known the tourist ...
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Southwest Waterfront, Washington, D
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Arena Stage, Washington, D
An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, musical performances or sporting events. It comprises a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by a roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a multitude of spectators. Background The word derives from Latin ', a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, to absorb blood.. The term ''arena'' is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl, but such a facility is typically called a ''stadium''. The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event. Football (be it association, rugby, gridiron, Australian rules, or Gaelic) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball, volleyball, handb ...
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Tidal Basin (District Of Columbia)
The Tidal Basin is a man-made reservoir located between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel in Washington, D.C. The Basin is part of West Potomac Park, is near the National Mall and is a focal point of the National Cherry Blossom Festival held each spring. The nearby Jefferson Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial overlook the Basin, which is south of the Washington Monument. History The concept of the Tidal Basin originated in the 1870s to serve both as a visual centerpiece and as a means for flushing the Washington Channel, a harbor separated from the Potomac River by landfills where East Potomac Park is now situated. Colonel Peter Conover Hains of the United States Army Corps of Engineers oversaw the Basin's design and construction. The Basin was initially named the Tidal Reservoir. It later received the name of Twining Lake to honor Major William Johnson Twining of the Corps of Engineers, who served on the Board of Co ...
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The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ...
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Interstate 395 (District Of Columbia-Virginia)
Interstate 395 is the designation for the following five existing Interstate Highways in the United States, all of which are related to I-95: *Interstate 395 (Connecticut–Massachusetts), a spur from I-95 to Auburn, Massachusetts *Interstate 395 (Florida), a spur in Miami, Florida *Interstate 395 (Maine), a spur in Bangor, Maine *Interstate 395 (Maryland), a spur in Baltimore, Maryland *Interstate 395 (Virginia–District of Columbia), a spur from I-95 to Washington, D.C. Other: *Interstate 395 (Delaware), a proposed portion of I-95 in Delaware, when it was under construction *Interstate 395 (Pennsylvania) Interstate 395 is the designation for the following five existing Interstate Highways in the United States, all of which are related to I-95: *Interstate 395 (Connecticut–Massachusetts), a spur from I-95 to Auburn, Massachusetts *Interstate 395 ( ..., a proposed portion of I-76 in Pennsylvania which was at one point intended to be numbered I-395 {{road disambiguation 3 ...
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