It is a central organizing feature of East Potomac Park, providing the only major vehicular route to and through the area.

[9] Riverside Drive in West Potomac Park was lit at night using the "Twin Twentys" lamppost.

These wrought iron light standards, approved by the United States Commission of Fine Arts, have twin globes connected to a main pole by a decorative U-shaped bracket.

Paved over in 1942 to provide parking for the temporary United States Department of War offices on the National Mall, the southern half was restored to athletic fields in 1943.

A Women Appointed to Voluntary Emergency Services (WAVES) dormitory was constructed on the remaining parking lot in 1944.

This statue commemorates the contributions of John Ericsson, a Swedish immigrant and designer of USS Monitor ironclad warship during the American Civil War.

In the 1930s, a large grove of Yoshino cherry trees were planted on both sides of the street in the northwestern corner of West Potomac Park.

[15] From 1966 to 1968, more than 1,800 Yoshino cherry and other trees were planted along Ohio Drive SW in East Potomac Park.

[17] This stone pagoda is also a contributing property to the East and West Potomac Parks Historic District.

This object consists of a brass plaque attached to a boulder next to the Polo Grounds south of Ohio Drive SW.

It was dedicated on May 15, 1958, by the District of Columbia to mark the spot where the aircraft took off with the first scheduled domestic air mail service.