Category:Old United States Naval Observatory

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English: Old Naval Observatory. The building still exists, but it's part of a much larger complex, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Looking at a map showing what 1860 Washington looked like, it was located on a tract bounded by E street on the north, 23rd street on the east, 25th street on the west, and the Potomac River on the south. (24th street ended at E street, with the Observatory driveway on the other side.) The Potomac river side is roughly equivalent to C street, but is angled (higher than C street on 25th street side, but below it on 23rd, such that there was an Upper Water Street below C, but that was it). By 1900, Upper Water Street had been extended along the old shoreline so it became the southern boundary, but the entire area south was being landfilled (eventually used for the Lincoln Memorial). Nowadays, of course. that area is completely changed. 23rd street is still there, but the rest of the rectangular street grid is gone. It's near the Kennedy Center, and Google Maps still points out the "Old Naval Observatory". (It also shows an outline of what was the angled Upper Water Street on the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences) - (lightly edited from remarks by User:Clindberg, originally made at User talk:Jmabel/Stereo cards of Washington, D.C.)

This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000864.

<nowiki>აშშ-ის ძველი სამხედრო-საზღვაო ობსერვატორია; 旧アメリカ海軍天文台; Old Naval Observatory; Old Naval Observatory; Старая ваенна-марская абсерваторыя ЗША; מצפה הצי האמריקני הישן; Old Naval Observatorium; Старая военно-морская обсерватория США; المرصد البحرى القديم; Old Naval Observatory; Old Naval Observatory; Old Naval Observatory; Միացյալ Նահանգների ռազմածովային հին աստղադիտարան; 舊海軍天文台; Old Naval Observatory; アメリカ合衆国にある天文台; Sternwarte in den Vereinigten Staaten; مرصد فلكى فى امريكا; astronomical observatory; astronomisch observatorium in Washington D.C., Verenigde Staten van Amerika; 旧海軍天文台</nowiki>
Old Naval Observatory 
astronomical observatory
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LocationWashington, D.C., District of Columbia
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Inception
  • 1843
Date of official opening
  • 1843
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
  • 1893
Map38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 03′ 07″ W
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Wikidata Q1570896
Minor Planet Center observatory code: 787
NRHP reference number: 66000864
LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID: dc0238
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