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Mount Vernon Square is a , New York Avenue , K Street , and 8th Street NW. Mount Vernon Square is bounded on the east by 7th Street , N.W.; on the west by 9th Street, N.W.; on the north by Mount Vernon Place; and on the south by a two-block section of K Street that is slightly offset from the rest of K Street. On the north side of the square is the new Washington Convention Center , the largest building in the city. On the south side is the Techworld office development, and on the east, offices of National Public Radio . In the center of the square is the City Museum Of Washington, D.C. , which closed in November 2004 for lack of enough visitors. The white marble building, finished in 1903, was originally the District of Columbia Public Library, a gift of Andrew Carnegie. Washington's Chinatown is centered two blocks to the south. The closest Metro station is Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center . The giant marble Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church is another landmark. Mount Vernon Square is also a Washington neighborhood and historic district, named for the adjacent city square, bounded by 7th Street N.W. on the west, 1st St N.W. on the east, N Street N.W. on the north, and New York Avenue N.W. to the south. REFERENCES The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C. by James M Goode (p274) SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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