Virginia Avenue

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View of Virginia Avenue from the roof of the Hall on Virginia Avenue

Virginia Avenue is a street in the Northwest, Southwest, and Southeast quadrants of Washington, D.C. Like other state-named streets in Washington, it diagonally crosses the grid pattern formed by lettered (east-west) and numbered (north-south) streets.

Many famous landmarks are adjacent to Virginia Avenue, including the Watergate complex, George Washington University's Hall on Virginia Avenue (which, formerly branded as a Howard Johnson's hotel, served as the lookout point for the Watergate break-in in 1972), the Pan-American Health Organization, the Harry S. Truman Building (Department of State headquarters), the Main Interior Building (Department of the Interior headquarters), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and West Potomac Park.

The western terminus of Virginia Avenue NW is at the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. Virginia Avenue provides access from the Parkway to Interstate 66. The eastern terminus is at Constitution Avenue between 17th and 18th streets. Between those termini, there is a partial interchange with the E Street Expressway. Non-contiguous portions of Virginia Avenue are found in Southwest, paralleling the CSX railroad tracks, and Southeast, paralleling the Southeast Freeway.

v t e Streets and highways of Washington, D.C.

Numbered Streets	7th Street 14th Street 16th Street 18th Street

Lettered Streets	H Street K Street M Street P Street U Street

State-named roadways	Connecticut Florida Georgia Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia Wisconsin

Border avenues and streets	Capitol Streets North East South Border Avenues Western Eastern Southern

Other streets	Benning Road Columbia Road Constitution Avenue Embassy Row Independence Avenue Jackson Place Klingle Road Madison Place Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue

Circles	Anna J. Cooper Barney Benjamin Banneker Chevy Chase Columbus Dupont Garfield Grant Logan Observatory Peace Pinehurst Randle Scott Sheridan Sherman Tenley Thomas Ward Washington Westmoreland

Squares	Farragut Franklin Freedom Plaza Lafayette Lincoln McPherson Mount Vernon Seward Stanton Union

Freeways	Anacostia DC 295 I-295 Capital Beltway (I-495) E Street Potomac River (I-66) Southeast (I-695) Southwest (I-395) Whitehurst (US 29)

Parkways	Clara Barton George Washington Memorial Oxon Run Rock Creek & Potomac Suitland

Coordinates: 38°53′47.1″N 77°2′55.4″W / 38.896417°N 77.048722°W / 38.896417; -77.048722

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Virginia Avenue

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