Local Attractions
Category:
Union Station
| 3 Blocks
50 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002
Hotel George is conveniently located less than 3 blocks from Union Station. Union Station is the grand ceremonial train station designed to be the entrance to Washington, D.C., when it opened in 1908. It is one of the busiest and best-known places in Washington, D.C., visited by 32 million people each year. The terminal is served by Amtrak, MARC and VRE commuter railroads, and the Washington Metro transit system of buses and subway trains.
Located three blocks from the Hotel George, The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center is the newest addition to this historic complex. At nearly 580,000 square feet, the Visitor Center is the largest project in the Capitol's more than two-century history and is approximately three quarters the size of the Capitol itself. The entire facility is located underground on the east side of the Capitol so as not to detract from the appearance of the Capitol and the grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1874.
Stretching from the foot of the U.S. Capitol past the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial and over to the Jefferson Memorial, the National Mall celebrates our nation's rich history and reflects who we are as a society to America and the world.
Verizon Center
| 5 Blocks
601 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
Verizon Center, located in downtown Washington, D.C., is a state-of-the-art sports and entertainment facility. Home to the NBA’s Washington Wizards, NHL’s Washington Capitals, the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, and the NCAA’s Georgetown Hoyas’s men’s basketball team, the arena averages 220 events a year. The 20,000-seat arena offers world-class sporting events, concerts, family shows, trade shows and special events. It’s located in the Chinatown/Penn Quarter neighborhood.
Washington Convention Center
| 6 Blocks
801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington, DC 20001
Located in the heart of Downtown Washington, DC, the monumental, 2.3 million sq. ft. Washington Convention Center is an essential meeting and event facility with 703,000 sq. ft. of prime exhibit space and 150,000 sq. ft. of flexible meeting space topped by an elegant ballroom for 3,000 people and views of the D.C. skyline. Acclaimed for it award-winning architecture and design, the Washington Convention Center offers state-of-the-art technology and telecommunications, restaurants such as Wolfgang Puck's, and is home to the largest art collection of any convention center in the nation.
White House
| 2 Miles
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from their early use as service areas, to the State Floor rooms, where countless leaders and dignitaries have been entertained, the White House is both the home of the President of the United States his family and a museum of American history. The White House is a place where history continues to unfold.
Washington National's Park
| 5 Miles
1500 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, DC 20003
Home of the Washington National's baseball team, Nationals Park is located in Southeast Washington, south of the Capitol, along the fast-developing Capitol Riverfront adjacent to the Navy Yard. The new park not only redefines modern sports facility architecture but also serves as the catalyst and cornerstone of a new mixed-use Capitol Riverfront in our nation's capital
