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Many of these sites honor and remember writers by name. Other sites are places where particular writers significantly contributed to the history of that institution.
We have divided this list by types of institutions.
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Cemeteries • Churches • DC Government • DC Parks • Embassies • Hotels • Hospitals • Libraries • Museums • National Park Service • Non-Profit Organizations • Public Schools • Restaurants • Roads & Bridges • Universities
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Cemeteries
Arlington National Cemetery
Harvey Allen, Ludwig Bemelmans, Dashiell Hammett, John F. Kennedy, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Herron Taft
Historic Congressional Cemetery
Nicholas A. Dunaev, B.B. French, Joseph Gales, Jr., Horatio King, Anne Royall, John Philip Sousa, George Watterston
Oak Hill Cemetery
Gamaliel Bailey, Ellen Tarr O'Connor Calder, John A. Joyce, John Nicolay, John Howard Payne, E.D.E.N. Southworth
St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
St. Paul's Rock Creek Episcopal Parish, Rock Creek Cemetery
Henry Adams, M. Carl Holman, Philander Johnson, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Thomas Nelson Page, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Bayard Smith, Samuel Harrison Smith, Ainsworth Spofford, Gore Vidal |

Churches
Ebenezer United Methodist Church
Emma V. Brown
Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church
John F. Cook, Sr., Charlotte Forten Grimké, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Keckley
Luther Place Memorial Church
Lloyd C. Douglas
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Catherine Marshall
St. John's Church Parish House
Owen Meredith
Washington National Cathedral
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson,
Poets and Writers Window: John Milton, Dante Alighieri
St. John's Chapel embroidery kneelers: Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman |
DC Government
DC Commission on the Arts
Office of the Poet Laureate: Sterling A. Brown; Larry Neal Writers Awards
Kalorama Citizens Association
Joel Barlow
Perry School Community Services Center (former M Street High School)
Mary Church Terrell, Sterling A. Brown, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Jean Toomer, Edward
Christopher Williams
DC Public Art
Aleksandr Pushkin Monument; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Statue, Samuel Gompers Memorial, Ulysses S. Grant Memorial,
DC Recorder of Deeds building
Frederick Douglass |
DC Parks
Dupont Circle Park
Dupont Circle School writers, including Ed Cox, Tim Dlugos, Jim Everhard, Liam Rector
Francis Scott Key Park
Freedom Plaza
Mary Clemmer Ames, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ernest Kroll, Walt Whitman
Guy Mason Recreation Center, Alley of Russian Poets
Anna Akhmatova, Aleksandr Blok, Afanasy Fet, Nikolai Gumilyov, Mikhail Lermontov, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Aleksandr Pushkin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Fyodor Tyutchev
Khalil Gibran Memorial Garden
Lafayette Park
Henry Adams, George Bancroft, John Hay, Paul Jennings, George Cabot Lodge, Robert Lowell, Owen Meredith, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
Walt Whitman Park |

Embassies
Embassy of Algiers
Perle Mesta
Embassy of Indonesia
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Embassy of Latvia
Natalie Clifford Barney
Embassy of Myanmar
Perle Mesta
Embassy of Syria
Helen Herron Taft
Embassy of Zambia
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mexican Cultural Institute
Carlos Fuentes
Organization of American States
Erico Verissimo, Sculpture Garden: Pablo Neruda, Ruben Dario, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Teresa de la Parra, Gabriela Mistral |
Hotels
Hay-Adams Hotel
Henry Adams, John Hay
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Langston Hughes, Clare Boothe Luce, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Perle Mesta
Willard Intercontinental
Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman |
Hospitals
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Ezra Pound |
Libraries
Folger Shakespeare Library
O.B. Hardison, Jr., Liam Rector, Robert Sargent
George Washington University Libraries, Gelman Library Special Collections, Washington Writers Archives
Library of Congress
US Poets Laureate, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Archibald MacLeish, Saint-John Perse, Katherine Anne Porter, Reed Whittemore
Busts of Eminent Men of
Letters, Demosthenes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Washington Irving, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walter Scott, and Dante Alighieri
University of Maryland Archives and Manuscripts Department
Conrad Aiken, Louisa May Alcott, Louis Auchincloss, Djuna Barnes, Carl Bode, James M. Cain, Hart Crane, Robert Creeley, John Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Roland Flint, Robert Frost, Thom Gunn, Ernest Hemingway, Laura Riding Jackson, Walter Kerr, H.L. Mencken, Marianne Moore, Ogden Nash, John Pauker, Ezra Pound, Ferdinand Reyher, Karl Shapiro, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Reed Whittemore, William Carlos Williams, William Butler Yeats, |
Museums
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Office of Missing Soldiers
Clara Barton
The Octagon House
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
Muna Lee
Smithsonian Institution
The Castle, Solomon G. Brown
Museum of American History, Julia Child, Evalyn Walsh McLean
National Zoological Park, William Temple Hornaday
Woodrow Wilson House
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
The White House
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, John Hay, Paul Jennings, John F. Kennedy, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, John Nicolay, Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
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National Park Service
Carter G. Woodson National Historic Site
Clara Barton National Historic Site
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Meridian Hill Park, aka Malcolm X Park
Dante Alighieri
Rock Creek Park, Joaquin Miller Cabin
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial |
Non-Profit Organizations
Arts Club of Washington
Henry Adams
Association for the Study of African American Life and
History
Carter G. Woodson
Casa Italiana
Dante Alighieri Statue, Michelangelo Statue
Cosmos Club
Henry Adams, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Lowell
Fall for the Book Festival
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award
Frederick Douglass Museum and Hall of Fame for Caring Americans
Katherine Anne Porter Society
National Geographic Society
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA
Zora Neale Hurston
Rachel Carson Council House
Robert and Mary Church Terrell House and LeDroit Park Museum
Sasha Bruce Youthwork
Evangeline Bruce
Society of the Cincinnati
Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson
Thornton Wilder Society
Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage
Langston Hughes
Washington Friends of Walt Whitman
The Word Works
Hilary Tham Capital Collection; Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition; Joaquin Miller Reading Series
The Writer's Center
Ann Darr, John Elsberg, Roland Flint |
Public Schools
Burroughs Education Campus
John Burroughs
Crummell Elementary School building
Alexander Crummell
Garnet-Patterson Middle School
Pearl Bailey
Kelly Miller Middle School
Key Elementary School
Francis Scott Key
Maya Angelou Public Charter School
Maya Angelou
Paul Laurence Dunbar High
Mary P. Burrill
Sumner School Museum and Archives
Emma V. Brown
Terrell McGogney Elementary School
Mary Church Terrell
Walt Whitman High, Bethesda, MD |
Restaurants
Busboys and Poets
Cullen Room, Countee Cullen
Langston Room, Langston Hughes
Zinn Room, Howard Zinn
Eatonville Restaurant
Zora Neale Hurston |
Roads & Bridges
Clara Barton Parkway
Francis Scott Key Bridge
Frederick Douglass Bridge
Langston Hughes Way
Walt Whitman Way |
Universities
American University
Donald Britton, Ann Darr, Arnost Lustig, James Tiptree, Ellis Yochelson
The Catholic University of America
Cicely Angleton, Walter Kerr, Barbara Raskin, Charles Warren Stoddard, James Kavanaugh
George Mason University
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Jim Everhard, Liam Rector
Georgetown University
Pearl Bailey, Roland Flint, O.B. Hardison Jr., Luis Muñoz Marin, Barbara Raskin, Laurence Stallings
George Washington University
Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson, Dee Brown, Francis Scott Key, Myrtle Cheney Murdock, J. Saunders Redding, Wendell Phillips Stafford, Edward Weismiller, Ellis Yochelson
Howard University
Alain Locke Hall
Art Department, Gwendolyn
Bennett
Art Gallery, Alain Locke
Drama Department, Owen Dodson
English Department, Sterling A. Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, John Killens, May Miller, Ahmos Zu-Bolton II
Founder's Library, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Edward
Christopher Williams, African American writers
History Department, Carter G. Woodson
Medical School, Rudolph Fisher
Philosophy Department, Alain Locke
Sociology Department, Kelly Miller
Johns Hopkins School of International Studies
Elizabeth Sullam
Trinity College
Ella Dorsey
University of Maryland
Jiménez Hall, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Ellis Yochelson, Reed Whittemore
McKeldin Library, Katherine Anne Porter Room
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