Notable Places
Attractions located in or near Penn Quarter include:
- Calvary Baptist Church
- Canadian Embassy
- Crime & Punishment Museum
- Ford's Theatre & Booth Alley
- Goethe-Institut
- International Spy Museum
- J. Edgar Hoover Building - FBI headquarters
- Lansburgh's historic flagship department store building - now defunct
- Madame Tussauds D.C.
- Marian Koshland Science Museum - National Academy of Sciences
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- National Building Museum
- National Portrait Gallery
- Newseum - Freedom Forum
- Petersen House
- Shakespeare Theatre Company at the Harman Center for the Arts - includes the Lansburgh Theatre and Sidney Harman Hall
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Saint Mary Mother of God Catholic Church
- Surratt House - now Wok 'n Roll Restaurant
- Touchstone Gallery
- U.S. Navy Memorial
- Verizon Center
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Zenith Gallery
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