Dupont Circle
The Dupont Circle is a place in downtown Washington, DC Even the traffic circle around the square, the historic district in which it is located, and a station situated therein, the Washington Metro bear the name of Dupont Circle . The course is at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue NW, Connecticut Avenue NW, New Hampshire Avenue NW, P Street NW, and 19th Street NW. Dupont Circle is bounded by 15th Street NW to the east, 22nd Street NW to the west, M Street NW to the south, and Florida Avenue NW to the south.
The Dupont Circle is named after the American naval officer Samuel Francis Du Pont . The marble fountain in the middle of the square is by Daniel Chester French , one of the most important American sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries, who also created the famous Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial .
Dupont Circle is located in the historic part of Washington designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant , but was not developed until shortly after the American Civil War. In 1871, the Army Corps of Engineers began building a roundabout called the Pacific Circle , as L'Enfant had envisaged in its town plan. On February 25, 1882, Congress changed the name of the square to Dupont Circle to honor Samuel Francis Du Pont for his services in the Civil War.
Several well-known think tanks and research institutions, such as the Brookings Institution , the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , the German Marshall Fund and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ) at Johns Hopkins University are located in the immediate vicinity of the square the Phillips Collection , the first museum of modern art in the United States, is near the square.
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Coordinates: 38 ° 54 '34.6 " N , 77 ° 2' 36.3" W.