It is located on the border of the Foggy Bottom and West End neighborhoods, which is a part of Ward 2.

The map also illustrates the development of the circle's surrounding with over thirty-three buildings between the New Hampshire and Pennsylvania intersection.

The growth of Washington Circle was indeed a very slow one and this may be, because of the unwillingness of the congress to back up the development of the city.

[1]: 164–186 In 1862, streetcars tracks were laid around Washington Circle, but were not properly maintained during the turbulent years of the Civil War.

Also the south of the circle along 23rd street was used as a Union army encampment, named Camp Fry.

With the influx of the African American population after the civil war, the church was built to act as a form of missionary to the people.

GWU's Square 54 complex is located directly south of the circle, near The George Washington University Hospital.

[8][9] A bronze equestrian statue, sculpted by Clark Mills and depicting George Washington riding his horse during the Battle of Princeton, was installed in the center of the circle on February 22, 1860.

[10] Mills depicted General Washington in the heroic, idealized Romantic style, reminiscent of Jacques-Louis David's painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps.