Dupont Circle

The Dupont Circle is a place in downtown Washington, DC Also the traffic circle around the square, a historic district in which it is located, and situated therein, the Washington Metro station bearing the name Dupont Circle. The site is located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue NW, Connecticut Avenue NW, New Hampshire Avenue NW, P Street NW and 19th Street NW. The neighborhood of Dupont Circle is the bounded by 15th Street NW in the east, 22nd Street NW to the west, M Street, NW in the south and Florida Avenue NW to the south.

Named the Dupont Circle is named after the American naval officer Samuel Francis Du Pont. The marble fountain in the center of the square is of Daniel Chester French, one of the most important American sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries, who created the famous Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial.

Although Dupont Circle is located in the historic Pierre Charles L' Enfant designed Washington's part, but was only developed in the period shortly after the American Civil War. 1871 began, the Army Corps of Engineers with the construction of a roundabout, the Pacific Circle was named as L' Enfant had planned this in his city planning. On February 25, 1882 Congress changed the name of the place in Dupont Circle to honor Samuel Francis Du Pont for his service in the Civil War.

In the immediate vicinity of the place several well-known think tanks and research institutions, such as the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the German Marshall Fund and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS ) of the Johns Hopkins University have their headquarters also the Phillips Collection, the first museum of modern art in the U.S., is located near the place.