place

L'Enfant Plaza station

1977 establishments in Washington, D.C.Railway stations in Washington, D.C.Railway stations in the United States opened in 1977Railway stations located underground in Washington, D.C.Southwest Federal Center
Stations on the Blue Line (Washington Metro)Stations on the Green Line (Washington Metro)Stations on the Orange Line (Washington Metro)Stations on the Silver Line (Washington Metro)Stations on the Yellow Line (Washington Metro)Use mdy dates from March 2018Virginia Railway Express stationsWashington Metro stations in Washington, D.C.
L'Enfant Plaza upper level, facing outbound
L'Enfant Plaza upper level, facing outbound

L'Enfant Plaza is an intermodal transit station complex located at L'Enfant Plaza in the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It consists of an underground Washington Metro rapid transit station and an elevated Virginia Railway Express commuter rail station. The Metro station, which opened on July 1, 1977, is one of four major interchange stations on the Metro system. It serves five of the six Metro lines: the Green Line and Yellow Line with two side platforms on the upper level; and the Blue Line, Orange Line, and Silver Line with one island platform on the lower level. The VRE station, which has a single side platform serving the northernmost of the three tracks of the RF&P Subdivision, is served by the Manassas Line and Fredericksburg Line.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article L'Enfant Plaza station (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

L'Enfant Plaza station
7th Street Southwest, Washington

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: L'Enfant Plaza stationContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 38.884775 ° E -77.021964 °
placeShow on map

Address

Constitution Center

7th Street Southwest 400
20219 Washington
District of Columbia, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

L'Enfant Plaza upper level, facing outbound
L'Enfant Plaza upper level, facing outbound
Share experience

Nearby Places

Hilton Washington DC National Mall
Hilton Washington DC National Mall

The Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf, previously known as the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, is a 367-room hotel located on the top four floors of a 12-story mixed-use building in downtown Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was designed by architect Vlastimil Koubek, and was opened on May 31, 1973, as the Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, named after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first surveyor and designer of the street layout of the city. The hotel sits atop L'Enfant Plaza, an esplanade and plaza structure erected above a highway and a parking garage in the Southwest quadrant of the District of Columbia. The plaza and hotel were approved in 1955, but construction did not begin on the plaza (on which the hotel sits) until 1965. The plaza and esplanade were completed in 1968. The start of construction on the hotel was delayed three years, and was completed in May 1973. The construction led to a lawsuit after it was found that the foundation of an adjoining structure had encroached on the hotel's property. The hotel suffered a serious fire in 1975 that claimed the lives of two people. L'Enfant Plaza Corp., which owned the hotel, sold the structure to Sarakreek Holdings in 1998, which in turn sold it to the JBG Companies in 2003. A legal battle ensued over the hotel's ownership. The hotel's original operator, Loews Hotels, was replaced after thirty-two years by Crestline Hotels & Resorts in 2005, which was in turn replaced by the Davidson Hotel Company in 2010. The hotel closed on December 3, 2013, for what was originally intended to be a year-long overhaul and upgrade of the entire property. It reopened on April 1, 2019, as the Hilton Washington DC National Mall.