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Mount Vernon Square is a square that lies a couple of blocks from Chinatown and close to the Washington Convention Center.  The building in the centre of the square used to be the District of Columbia Public Library, and was completed in 1903 as a gift of the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

 

 

You can walk around Mount Vernon Square

 

 

 

Near the entrance to the former public library ...

 

 

 

... which is itself an impressive building

 

 

 

Some greenery on the square, too

 

 

 

The former public library, from the other side to the previous photos