Mount Vernon Square

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Carnegie Library building, located at Mount Vernon Square, houses the City Museum of Washington, D.C., and the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

Mount Vernon Square is a city square in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.. It is located where the following streets would otherwise intersect: Massachusetts Avenue, New York Avenue, K Street, and 8th Street NW.

Mount Vernon Square is bounded on the east by 7th Street, N.W.; on the west by 9th Street, N.W.; on the north by Mount Vernon Place; and on the south by a two-block section of K Street that is slightly offset from the rest of K Street.

On the north side of the square is the new Washington Convention Center. On the south side is the Techworld development. In the center of the square is the City Museum of Washington, DC. Washington's Chinatown is centered two blocks to the south. The closest Metro station is Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center.

Mount Vernon Square is also a Washington neighborhood and historic district, named for the adjacent city square, bounded by 11th Street N.W. on the west, New Jersey Avenue N.W. on the east, M Street N.W. on the north, and K Street and Massachusetts and New York Avenues N.W. on the south.