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 Richard Byrd William Raymond Corson George Washington Parke Custis Ann Darr Robert John Donovan Granville Roland Fortescue Ruth Bader Ginsberg Marcus Goodrich Dashiell Hammett Richard Josiah Hinton Juanita Redmon Hipps Oliver Wendell Holmes 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-Sa
Glenwood Cemetery
John L. McCreery Seabury Grandin Quinn (under the pen name Jerome Burke) Sara Andrews Spencer
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
Mary P. Burrill John Francis Cook, Sr. John Wesley Cromwell Daniel Alexander Payne Murray
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland MD
Nannie Helen Burroughs Sam Lacy Rayford Logan 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
Osborn Perry Anderson Solomon G. Brown Mary Ann Shadd Cary Rev. John F. Cook Christian A. Fleetwood Paul Jennings Elizabeth Keckley Paul E. Sluby, Sr.
Oak Hill Cemetery
John Adlum Frederick A. Aiken Madeleine Albright Gamaliel Bailey Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey Spencer Fullerton Baird Ben Bradlee Ellen Tarr O’Connor Calder Mary Henderson Eastman Katherine Graham John A. Joyce Nancy Polk Lasselle Jeanie Gould Lincoln Helen Nicolay John Nicolay William Douglas O’Connor John Henry Payne Albert Pike 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 Edwin B. Hay M. Carl Holman Philander Chase Johnson Alice Roosevelt Longworth Evalyn Walsh McLean Thomas Nelson Page Duncan Phillips Terence Vincent Powderly John Claggett Proctor 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) Dolores Kendrick (Office of the Poet Laureate)
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) Carter G. Woodson (Memorial)
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
Jean C. Bower O.B. Hardison, Jr. Liam Rector Robert Sargent Edwin Zimmerman Mary Zurhorst Gray
George Washington University Libraries, Gelman Library Special Collections, Washington Writers Archives
Library of Congress
Paul Laurence Dunbar (US Poet Laureate) Archibald MacLeish (Librarian of Congress) George Watterston (Librarian of Congress) 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) Joseph Auslander (US Poet Laureate) Elizabeth Bishop (US Poet Laureate) Richard Eberhart (US Poet Laureate) Randall Jarrell (US Poet Laureate) Robert Penn Warren (US Poet Laureate) Reed Whittemore (US Poet Laureate) Katherine Garrison Chapin David Kresh Saint-John Perse Katherine Anne Porter Sigmund Skard Audrey Wurdemann
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
Mary P. Burrill Edward Christopher Williams Anna Julia Cooper Jessie Redmon Fauset
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)
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 Shirley Graves Cochrane Maxine Combs Ann Darr Arnost Lustig Mary Stone Hanley Israel Lewis Richard McCann Ann McLaughlin Myra Sklarew Octave S. Stevenson Henry Taylor Joseph C. Thackery Venus Thrash James Tiptree, Jr. Ellis L. Yochelson
The Catholic University of America
Cicely Angleton Shirley Graves Cochrane James Kavanaugh Jean Kerr Walter Kerr George M. Lightfoot Barbara Raskin Octave S. Stevenson Charles Warren Stoddard
George Mason University
Vasily P. Aksyonov Yoonmee Chang Maxine Combs Mark Wayne Craver Jim Everhard Mary Stone Hanley Liam Rector Mary Roberts Rinehart (Award)
Georgetown University
Pearl Bailey Jean C. Bower Ward Dorrance Roland Flint O.B. Hardison, Jr. Anthony Hecht Dolores Kendrick Luis Muñoz Marín Barbara Raskin Laurence Stallings
George Washington University
Claribel Alegría Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson William Peter Blatty Dee Brown Letitia Woods Brown Elliott Coues Martin Galvin James Oliver Horton L. Ron Hubbard Neil Merton Judd Francis Scott Key Francis Davis Millet Edith Brown Mirick Myrtle Cheney Murdock Judy Neri Seabury Grandin Quinn J. Saunders Redding Wendell Phillips Stafford James Tiptree, Jr. Margaret Truman Edward Weismiller Daoma Winston Ellis L. Yochelson
Howard University
O.O. Howard (Founder) Alain Locke (Hall) Gwendolyn Bennett (Art Department) Lou Stovall (Art Department) Alain Locke (Art Gallery) George M. Lightfoot (Classics Department) Owen Dodson (Drama Department) Sterling A. Brown (English Department) Maxine Combs (English Department) Arthur P. Davis (English Department) Zora Neale Hurston (English Department) Reuben Jackson (English Department) John Killens (English Department) May Miller (English Department) Toni Morrison (EngEnglish Department) Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (English Department) Edward Christopher Williams (Founder's Library, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center) Letitia Woods Brown (History Dept) Carter G. Woodson (History Department) John Wesley Cromwell (Law School) Vernon Jordan (Law School) Walter H. Mazyck (Law School) Rudolph Fisher (Medical School) Sam Lacy (Media, Journalism, and Film School) Greg Tate (Media, Journalism and Film School) Alain Locke (Philosophy Department) E. Franklin Frazier (Sociology Department) Kelly Miller (Sociology Department)
Johns Hopkins University
Cyrus Adler Russell Baker Nancy Johnson Gil Scott-Heron Cordwainer Smith Elizabeth C. Sullam
Trinity College
Ella Dorsey Cordwainer Smith Venus Thrash Katherine Zadravec
University of Maryland
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Jiménez Hall) Francis Scott Key (Key Hall) Katherine Anne Porter (McKeldin Library, Katherine Anne Porter Room) Zenobia Camprubí Aymar Carl Bode John Elsberg Martin Galvin Zahara Heckscher Rod Jellema Barbara F. Lefcowitz Judy Neri Stanley Plumly Douglass Wallop Reed Whittemore Ellis L. Yochelson