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Literary Washington
The Round Robin Bar is one of Literary Washington.

1. The Round Robin Bar

8.0
1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, D.C.
Hotel Bar · Downtown-Penn Quarter-Chinatown · 33 tips and reviews

Library L.Library Lady: “You adopt the universal habit of the place and call for a mint-julep, a whiskey-skin, a gin-cocktail...for the conviviality of Washington sets in at an early hour,” wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1862

Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage is one of Literary Washington.

2. Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage

7.1
1816 12th St NW, Washington, D.C.
Historic and Protected Site · U-Street · 4 tips and reviews

DC Public LibraryDC Public Library: In the 1920s this was known as the 12th Street Y, home to Langston Hughes. Zora Neale Hurston met Hughes while he was living here in DC. They would later become close friends and collaborators.