Douglass, Washington, D.C.

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Douglass is a residential neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C., on the eastern side of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. It is bounded by Suitland Parkway to the north and east, Alabama Avenue to the south, and the St. Elizabeth's campus to the west. Douglass, which sits atop a hilly ridge that is the highest point in Southeast Washington, is almost entirely occupied by two public housing complexes: Douglass Dwellings and Stanton Dwellings.

The neighborhood is named for the famed American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, whose homestead sits approximately one mile north of his namesake community.