Bellevue, Washington, D.C.
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Bellevue is a residential neighborhood located in Southwest Washington, D.C, east of Bolling Air Force Base. It is bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SW to the west and northwest, Joliet Street SW to the south, and First Street and South Capitol Street on the east. There are many garden apartments, one high-rise apartment building, and many 1940s era detached homes with yards. The Naval Research Laboratory is adjacent, as are the Washington Firefighters training center, a federal Job Corps center, the Blue Plains wastewater treatment plant, and Hadley Memorial Hospital. Celebrities with neighborhood connections include Denyse Graves, New York metropolitan opera singer who grew up on Galveston Street, and country singer/entertainer Roy Clark who as a teenager lived on First Street.
Hadley Memorial Hospital, one of two hospitals in D.C.'s Ward 8, is located in Bellevue. There is also a commercial corridor along Atlantic Street near South Capitol.
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