Union Square (Washington, D.C.)

Union Square, Washington, D.C., in 2012
Vehicles entering the Third Street Tunnel, located under Union Square (2009)

Union Square is an 11-acre public plaza at the foot of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States.[1] It encompasses the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial (1924) and the 6-acre Capitol Reflecting Pool (1971) and is just west of the United States Capitol building. Views differ as to whether the Square is just east of the National Mall or is itself the eastern end.

Interstate 395 transits the Third Street Tunnel just beneath Union Square.[2] The George Gordon Meade Memorial (1927) formerly stood in the northwest section of Union Square; that memorial now stands near the intersection of Constitution Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

  1. ^ "Union Square Cultural Landscape Inventory". National Mall Plan: History. National Park Service. 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  2. ^ (1) Willinger, Douglas Andrew (2007-03-18). "I-95 Center Leg (today's I-395 3rd Street Tunnel)". A Trip Within the Beltway: About the Roads of Disconnect and Connect Within and Near Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
    Google map of Union Square area