≈ 5 min awayWhite House- Distance
- 400 m
Washington · United States
Octagon House: what's nearby, how to get there and when to go · 2026
The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
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White House
Smithsonian Institution
National Mall
Capital One Arena
Jefferson Memorial
Lincoln Memorial
National Museum of Natural History
Washington Monument
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Portrait Gallery
Newseum
The Phillips Collection
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ford's Theatre
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Watergate complex
Blair House
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
East Wing
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of American History
Pennsylvania Avenue- Smithsonian American Art Museum
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
West Wing
World War II Memorial
About the place
Facts
- New York Avenue Northwest, 1799, Washington, United States of America
- https://www.aia.org/conferences/the-octagon
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