Metro tunnels or through the United States Capitol building via The Mall. Seward Square can be reached through the various Washington, D.C. The area was picked by Reilly's Rangers as base of operations thanks to its relative good condition and the presence of a reinforced bunker in operational state in one of the few buildings that were destroyed during the War. However, the passage of time has done relatively little harm: many of the buildings are relatively intact and public amenities still function relatively well, despite nearly two centuries of no maintenance.
The purchase was ridiculed at the time and was colloquially known as 'Seward's Folly'.Īfter the Great War, the area was abandoned. Seward is noted for his part in the American purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867. The park is named after William Henry Seward, the United States Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. North and south of the park are the respective westbound and eastbound lanes of Seward Square, SE. The square is bounded by 3rd Street to the west and 5th Street to the east. Seward Square is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and North Carolina Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C.
