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National Mall
America's front yard stretching from the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, lined with iconic monuments, memorials, and Smithsonian museums.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Glassmanor
Maryland, United States · North America
About Glassmanor
Glassmanor works well as a base: 5 minutes from Hillcrest Heights, 8km from National Mall.
Glassmanor is in Maryland, United States, with about 17,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Hillcrest Heights, about 4 km away.
Glassmanor is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 18,430. In the 1990 and 2000 censuses, the United States Census Bureau had placed Glassmanor and the adjacent community of Oxon Hill in the "OxonRead more
Hill-Glassmanor" census-designated place for statistical purposes. Glassmanor was last delineated separately in 1980, when the CDP recorded a population of 7,751.
The original Glassmanor apartments were built circa 1950 by the Glassman company, just outside the border of southeast Washington. In the mid-1950s, the Eastover shopping center was built across the highway, followed by other adjoining apartment projects in the 1960s. U.S. Senator George McGovern, who was the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 1972, lived briefly in Glassmanor while a freshman congressman. The area has undergone tremendous demographic and social changes since that time.
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What is there to see near Glassmanor?
Within an hour or so of Glassmanor: National Mall (8 km), Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (8 km), National Gallery of Art (8 km), Smithsonian Museums (8 km).
Where is Glassmanor?
Glassmanor is in Maryland, United States, about 4 km from Hillcrest Heights.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 17,295
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Maryland
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 38.8190, -76.9986
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Worth the detour from Glassmanor
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Home to the Hope Diamond and over 148 million specimens, making it one of the world's premier natural history collections.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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National Gallery of Art
A free world-class museum on the National Mall featuring masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Americas.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Smithsonian Museums
The world's largest museum complex with 21 museums and galleries, all free, including the Air and Space Museum and Natural History Museum.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Jefferson Memorial
Neoclassical domed memorial on the Tidal Basin dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Powerful stone monument on the National Mall honouring the civil rights leader, featuring a 9-metre carved figure emerging from rock.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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United States Capitol
Neoclassical seat of the US Congress topped by the iconic cast-iron dome, a centrepiece of the National Mall.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Washington Monument
Towering 169-metre marble obelisk on the National Mall honouring America's first president, George Washington.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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