Many of these sites honor and remember writers by name. Other sites are places where particular writers significantly contributed to the history of that institution. We have divided this list by types of institutions.
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Cemeteries
Arlington National Cemetery
Harvey Allen Ludwig Bemelmans Millicent Todd Bingham Herman Hoffman Birney, Jr. Clay Blair Henry Van Ness Boynton Estelle Aubrey Brown William Raymond Corson George Washington Parke Custis Ann Darr Robert John Donovan Granville Roland Fortescue Marcus Goodrich Dashiell Hammett Richard Josiah Hinton Juanita Redmon Hipps Robert Ingersoll Walter Karig Burt Kennedy John F. Kennedy Michael David Kilian Harold King Irving R. Levine Katherine Marshall Mabel Wood Martin Gene Patterson Robert Peary Charles Johnson Post Charles Edward Potter John Wesley Powell Lewis B. Puller Martha Putney Mary Randolph Mary Roberts Rinehart Tere Rios Kenneth L. Roberts Clarke Robinson Jackie Ronne Cordwainer Smith Helen Herron Taft Nancy Whitehead Reed Whittemore Charles Ray Willeford Herbert Osborn Yardley Zitkala-Ša (under the name Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
Glenwood Cemetery
John L. McCreery Seabury Grandin Quinn (under the pen name Jerome Burke)
Historic Congressional Cemetery
J. Goldsborough Bruff George Washington Cutter Nicholas A. Dunaev B.B. French Joseph Gales, Jr. Adam Gurowski Charles Frederick Henningsen Horatio King Alain Locke John Silva Meehan Anne Royall Mary Howard Schoolcraft John Philip Sousa William Thornton George Watterston William Wirt
Historic Woodlawn Cemetery
John Francis Cook, Sr. Daniel Alexander Payne Murray
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland MD
Sam Lacy Kelly Miller Max Robinson Mary Church Terrell Joseph A. Walker, Jr. Charles Harris Wesley Edward Christopher Williams Carter G. Woodson
National Harmony Memorial Park, Largo MD
Elizabeth Keckley
Oak Hill Cemetery
Frederick A. Aiken Gamaliel Bailey Spencer Fullerton Baird Ellen Tarr O’Connor Calder John A. Joyce Nancy Polk Lasselle Jeanie Gould Lincoln John Nicolay William Douglas O’Connor John Henry Payne E.D.E.N. Southworth
St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery
F. Scott Fitzgerald Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
St. Paul's Rock Creek Episcopal Parish, Rock Creek Cemetery
Henry Adams Mary Clemmer Ames Malvina French Harlan M. Carl Holman Philander Chase Johnson Untitled Evalyn Walsh McLean Thomas Nelson Page Terence Vincent Powderly Tim Russert Upton Sinclair Margaret Bayard Smith Samuel Harrison Smith Ainsworth Spofford Gore Vidal
Churches
Church of Scientology
Ebenezer United Methodist Church
Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church
John F. Cook, Sr. Charlotte Forten Grimké Sojourner Truth Elizabeth Keckley
Luther Place Memorial Church
Lloyd C. Douglas
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
St. John's Church Parish House
Washington National Cathedral
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson Helen Keller John Milton (Poets and Writers Window) Dante Alighieri (Poets and Writers Window) Emily Dickinson (St. John's Chapel embroidery kneelers) Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edna St. Vincent Millay Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman
DC Government
DC Commission on the Arts
Sterling A. Brown (Office of the Poet Laureate) Larry Neal (Writers Awards)
Kalorama Citizens Association
Joel Barlow
Perry School Community Services Center (former M Street High School)
Mary Church Terrell Sterling A. Brown Jessie Redmon Fauset Jean Toomer Edward Christopher Williams
DC Public Art
Aleksandr Pushkin (Monument) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Statue) Samuel Gompers (Memorial) Ulysses S. Grant (Memorial) Olive Risley Seward (Statue)
DC Recorder of Deeds building
DC Parks
Dupont Circle Park
Ed Cox (Dupont Circle School writer) Tim Dlugos (Dupont Circle School writer) Jim Everhard (Dupont Circle School writer) Liam Rector (Dupont Circle School writer)
Francis Scott Key Park
Freedom Plaza
Mary Clemmer Ames Charles Dickens Ralph Waldo Emerson Ernest Kroll Walt Whitman
Guy Mason Recreation Center, Alley of Russian Poets
Anna Akhmatova Aleksandr Blok Afanasy Fet Nikolai Gumilyov Mikhail Lermontov Osip Mandelstam Boris Pasternak Aleksandr Pushkin Marina Tsvetaeva Fyodor Tyutchev
Khalil Gibran Memorial Garden
Khalil Gibran
Lafayette Park
Henry Adams George Bancroft John Hay Paul Jennings George Cabot Lodge Robert Lowell Owen Meredith Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
Walt Whitman Park
Walt Whitman
Embassies
Embassy of Algiers
Embassy of France
Embassy of India
Embassy of Indonesia
Embassy of Latvia
Embassy of Myanmar
Embassy of Sri Lanka
Embassy of Syria
Embassy of Zambia
Mexican Cultural Institute
Organization of American States
Erico Verissimo Pablo Neruda (Sculpture Garden) Ruben Dario (Sculpture Garden) Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz (Sculpture Garden) Teresa de la Parra (Sculpture Garden) Gabriela Mistral (Sculpture Garden)
Other embassies
Hospitals
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Hotels
Hay-Adams Hotel
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Langston Hughes Clare Booth Luce Mary Roberts Rinehart Perle Mesta
Willard Intercontinental
Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson Nathaniel Hawthorne Julia Ward Howe Mark Twain Walt Whitman
Libraries
Folger Shakespeare Library
George Washington University Libraries, Gelman Library Special Collections, Washington Writers Archives
Library of Congress
Paul Laurence Dunbar (US Poet Laureate) Archibald MacLeish (US Poet Laureate) Saint-John Perse (US Poet Laureate) Katherine Anne Porter (US Poet Laureate) Reed Whittemore (US Poet Laureate) Demosthenes (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) Ralph Waldo Emerson (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) Washington Irving (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) Benjamin Franklin (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) Thomas Babington Macaulay (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) Nathaniel Hawthorne (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) Walter Scott (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) Dante Alighieri (Busts of Eminent Men of Letters) David Kresh
University of Maryland Archives and Manuscripts Department
Conrad Aiken Louisa May Alcott Louis Auchincloss Djuna Barnes Carl Bode James M. Cain Hart Crane Robert Creeley John Dos Passos T.S. Eliot William Faulkner Roland Flint Robert Frost Thom Gunn Ernest Hemingway Laura Riding Jackson Walter Kerr H.L. Mencken Marianne Moore Ogden Nash John Pauker Ezra Pound Ferdinand Reyher Karl Shapiro Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Reed Whittemore William Carlos Williams William Butler Yeats
Museums
Corcoran Gallery of Art
National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Office of Missing Soldiers
The Octagon House
Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Solomon G. Brown (The Castle) Julia Child (Museum of American History) Evalyn Walsh McLean (Museum of American History) William Temple Hornaday (National Zoological Park)
Woodrow Wilson House
National Park Service
Carter G. Woodson National Historic Site
Clara Barton National Historic Site
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Meridian Hill Park, aka Malcolm X Park
Dante Alighieri
Rock Creek Park
Joaquin Miller (cabin) Jean Jules Jusserand (bench)
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
Non-Profit Organizations
Arts Club of Washington
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Casa Italiana
Dante Alighieri (statue) Michelangelo (statue)
Cosmos Club
Daughters of the American Revolution
Fall for the Book Festival
Mary Roberts Rinehart (Award)
Frederick Douglass Museum and Hall of Fame for Caring Americans
Katherine Anne Porter Society
National Geographic Society
New School for African American Thought
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA
Rachel Carson Council House
Robert and Mary Church Terrell House and LeDroit Park Museum
Sasha Bruce Youthwork
Scottish Rite Masonic Temple
Albert Pike
Society of the Cincinnati
Thornton Wilder Society
Thornton Wilder
Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage
Washington Friends of Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
The Word Works
Hilary Tham (Capital Collection) Jacklyn Potter (Young Poets Competition) Joaquin Miller (Reading Series)
The Writer's Center
Public Schools
Burroughs Education Campus
John Burroughs
Crummell Elementary School building
Alexander Crummell
Garnet-Patterson Middle School
Kelly Miller Middle School
Kelly Miller
Key Elementary School
Maya Angelou Public Charter School
Maya Angelou
Paul Laurence Dunbar High
Sumner School Museum and Archives
Terrell McGogney Elementary School
Walt Whitman High, Bethesda, MD
Walt Whitman
Restaurants
Busboys and Poets
Countee Cullen (Cullen Room) Langston Hughes (Langston Room) Howard Zinn (Zinn Room)
Eatonville Restaurant
Roads & Bridges
Clara Barton Parkway
Francis Scott Key Bridge
Frederick Douglass Bridge
Langston Hughes Way
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge
Walt Whitman Way
Walt Whitman
Universities
American University
Donald Britton Ann Darr Arnost Lustig James Tiptree, Jr. Ellis L. Yochelson
The Catholic University of America
Cicely Angleton Walter Kerr Barbara Raskin Charles Warren Stoddard James Kavanaugh
George Mason University
Georgetown University
Pearl Bailey Jean C. Bower Roland Flint O.B. Hardison, Jr. Luis Muñoz Marín Barbara Raskin Laurence Stallings
George Washington University
Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson Dee Brown Letitia Woods Brown L. Ron Hubbard Francis Scott Key Myrtle Cheney Murdock J. Saunders Redding Wendell Phillips Stafford Edward Weismiller Daoma Winston Ellis L. Yochelson
Howard University
Alain Locke (Hall) Gwendolyn Bennett (Art Department) Letitia Woods Brown (History Dept) John Wesley Cromwell (Law School) Owen Dodson (Drama Department) Alain Locke (Art Gallery) Sterling A. Brown (English Department) Zora Neale Hurston (English Department) John Killens (English Department) May Miller (English Department) Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (English Department) Edward Christopher Williams (Founder's Library, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center) Carter G. Woodson (History Department) Rudolph Fisher (Medical School) Alain Locke (Philosophy Department) Kelly Miller (Sociology Department)
Johns Hopkins University
Trinity College
University of Maryland
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Jiménez Hall) Ellis L. Yochelson Reed Whittemore Katherine Anne Porter (McKeldin Library, Katherine Anne Porter Room)