Kreeger Museum
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Kreeger Museum is a museum, at a recorded elevation of 102 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is W Street Park, a park 0.3 miles away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 1.0 miles off. 40 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Kreeger Museum is a modern and contemporary non-profit art museum located in Washington, D.C., United States. It is located on Foxhall Road, one of the residential neighborhoods of the city, in the former home of Carmen and David Lloyd Kreeger, pillars of the Washington D.C. arts and cultural community, and it contains the art collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and sculpture they acquired from 1952 to 1988.
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Dates from 1994.
Wikidata Q1787100, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 102 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 3.7 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 8.4 mi off the Booth's Escape
- 1.8 mi off the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- W Street Park: 0.3 mi
- Stoddert Recreation Center: 0.6 mi
- Palisades Park: 0.9 mi
- Whitehaven Parkway Park: 0.9 mi
- Hardy: 0.9 mi
- Dave Grohl Mural: 0.4 mi
- Glass Forest: 0.8 mi
- Charles Glover: 0.9 mi
- Creation Rose Window: 1.1 mi
- Labyrinth: 1.1 mi
- Whitehaven Garden: 0.6 mi
- Bishop’s Garden: 1.1 mi
- Demonstration Vegetable Garden: 1.2 mi
- Demonstration Native Plant Garden: 1.2 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 1.2 mi
- Battery Kemble: 0.7 mi
- Peace Cross: 1.0 mi
- Georgetown University World War II Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Jefferson Garcia-Yanez: 1.4 mi
- Khalil Gibran Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Fletcher's Cove: 0.8 mi
- Picnic site for Rose park: 2.1 mi
- Picnic Grove 1: 2.3 mi
- Picnic Grove 2 South: 2.4 mi
- Picnic Grove 2 South: 2.6 mi
- James I. Mayer Center for Environmental Education: 1.2 mi
- American University Museum at the Katzen: 1.2 mi
- Dumbarton Oaks: 1.5 mi
- Old Stone House: 1.9 mi
- Anderson House: 2.3 mi
- All Hallows Guild Traveling Carousel: 1.2 mi
- Twin Oaks: 1.6 mi
- Old Stone House: 1.9 mi
- Sloth Bear: 2.0 mi
- Fishing Cat: 2.0 mi
- Spring Valley Park: 1.2 mi
- Potomac Overlook Regional Park: 1.2 mi
- Donaldson Run Park: 1.3 mi
- Fort Bennet Park and Palisades Trail: 1.6 mi
- Reservation 630: 2.0 mi
- Georgetown Heights: 0.7 mi
- Mount Alto: 0.8 mi
- Camp Hill: 1.2 mi
- Lees Hill: 1.4 mi
- Mackeys Hill: 1.6 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 5.5 mi
- Silver Spring: 5.7 mi
- Takoma Spring: 5.7 mi
- Indian Springs: 11.8 mi
- Sandy Spring: 15.5 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 6.6 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 6.9 mi
- Great Falls: 10.3 mi
- Coe Creek: 20.0 mi
- Brambleton Sign/Water Decoration: 24.0 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 10.8 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 12.1 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 20.2 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 20.2 mi
- Indian Head: 22.4 mi
- Fishing Shore: 0.9 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 6.1 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 9.1 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 9.2 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area West: 23.2 mi
- Manassas Safety/Rest Area East: 23.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kreeger Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gantt Hill | W 272° | 156 m | 7.7 mi |
| Hunting Hill | NNW 333° | 156 m | 12.7 mi |
| Black Hill | NNW 329° | 148 m | 21.5 mi |
| Mount Daniel | WSW 252° | 144 m | 5.3 mi |
| Minor's Hill | WSW 251° | 140 m | 4.0 mi |
| Freedom Hill | W 271° | 140 m | 8.3 mi |
| Prout Hill | WSW 243° | 137 m | 6.2 mi |
| Upton Hill | SW 223° | 125 m | 4.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:58 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:08 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 37 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dalecarlia Rsvr, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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