Gallery Place is a

Washington Metro The Washington Metro (or simply Metro), formally the Metrorail,Google Books search/preview

Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, Na ...

, United States, on the

Green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combin ...

Red Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary ...

and

Yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In the RG ...

Lines. It is a transfer station between the Red Line on the upper level and the

Lines on the lower level. Gallery Place is located in Northwest Washington, with entrances at

7th 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ...

and F, 7th and H, and 9th and G Streets. The station's only street elevator is north of F Street on the east side of 7th Street. The station, which is beneath the Capital One Arena, serves that arena and the surrounding

Chinatown A Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Austr ...

and

Penn Quarter Penn Quarter is a neighborhood east of Downtown Washington, D.C. and north of Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Penn Quarter is roughly equivalent to the city's early downtown core near Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street NW, The definition of Downtown ...

neighborhoods in downtown Washington. The station is located very close to Metro Center, such that the lights of one are visible down the tunnel from the other.

History

Service began on December 15, 1976, as part of the original Red Line that ran from Farragut North to Rhode Island Avenue–Brentwood. The opening of the station was delayed by a court order over lack of handicapped access (it was originally supposed to open with the rest of the first stations on March 27, 1976). WMATA provided assurance that such access would be available by June 1, 1977. Yellow Line service began on April 30, 1983, extending service to the

Pentagon In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε ''pente'' meaning ''five'' and γωνία ''gonia'' meaning ''angle'') is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°. A pentagon may be simp ...

and

National Airport Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport , sometimes referred to colloquially as National Airport, Washington National, Reagan National Airport, DCA, Reagan, or simply National, is an international airport in Arlington County, Virginia, across ...

stations. An abstract wall sculpture, ''The Yellow Line'' by Constance Fleures, was installed in 1989 on the lower-level platform, Green Line service began in 1991, adding service (at the time) to U Street and

Anacostia Anacostia is a historic neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. Its downtown is located at the intersection of Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. It is located east of the Anacostia River, after which the neighborhood is nam ...

. Originally named Gallery Place after the nearby National Portrait Gallery and

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

, the station was renamed Gallery Place–Chinatown in 1986 (although the station's signage was not replaced until 1990). In 2000, a sculpture entitled ''The Glory of the Chinese Descendants'' by Foon Sham, was installed over the 7th and H Street entrance at the mezzanine level. The sculpture depicts a large Chinese-style fan above a bowl of rice. The station reverted to its original name, Gallery Place, on November 3, 2011, with "Chinatown" listed as a subtitle.WMATA. This station has been a testing ground for new features in Metro stations. In 1993, the station was one of the first Metro stations to receive tactile edging on its platforms. Since 2004, the station has been the site of testing for new signage. As a result, there is far more signage in this station than most others, including lighted signs, as well as signage that isn't found anywhere else in the system. In 2007, red

LEDs A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. The color of the light (cor ...

were tested for the platform edge lights on the upper level. Orange LEDs were tested at the platform edge on the lower level, before being replaced by red LEDs in 2008. In 2017, WMATA added yellow stickers on the platform floors to remind riders where the end of six-car trains stop, to help riders avoid being in the area near the end of the platform behind where the last car of the train stops. Between January 15 to January 21, 2021, this station was closed because of security concerns due to the 2021 Inauguration.

Station layout

Like other downtown transfer stations, Gallery Place has a two-level configuration. However, unlike Metro Center and

L'Enfant Plaza L'Enfant Plaza is a complex of four commercial buildings grouped around a large plaza in the Southwest, Washington, D.C., Southwest section of Washington, D.C., United States. Immediately below the plaza and the buildings is the "La Promenade" ...

, where the platforms cross centrally, the Green and Yellow Line platforms are located near the east end of the station, resulting in an off-balance layout. This is a result of the Green and Yellow Lines' location below 7th Street NW, while the Red Line curves southeast heading towards

Judiciary Square Judiciary Square is a neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., the vast majority of which is occupied by various federal and municipal courthouses and office buildings. Judiciary Square is located roughly between Pennsylvania Avenue to the sou ...

and

Union Station A union station (also known as a union terminal, a joint station in Europe, and a joint-use station in Japan) is a railway station at which the tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway company, railway companies, allowi ...

.WMATA
"Emergency Evacuation Map: Gallery Pl-Chinatown Station; 7th & H Sts Exit."
Accessed March 9, 2013. Plans to add a pedestrian tunnel connecting Gallery Place with Metro Center have long been in the works. The "Gallery Place/Chinatown - Metro Center Pedestrian Passageway Tunnel Study" was completed in July 2005.

Gallery

File:GalleryPlaceSign.jpg, Station signage for Green/Yellow Lines platform File:Gallery place metro 7th st.jpg, Entrance to the Gallery Place Metro station, along 7th Street at Capital One Arena. File:Gallery Place-Chinatown Station.jpg, ''The Glory of the Chinese Descendants'' at the Chinatown exit File:Gallery Pl - Lower level - Feb2013.jpg, ''The Yellow Line'' on the lower-level platform

References

External links

* The Schumin Web Transit Center
Gallery Place Station (Upper Level)
* The Schumin Web Transit Center
Gallery Place Station (Lower Level)

G Street and 9th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

F Street and 7th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

H Street and 7th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
{{Washington Metro stations navbox Chinatown (Washington, D.C.) Stations on the Green Line (Washington Metro) Washington Metro stations in Washington, D.C. Stations on the Red Line (Washington Metro) Stations on the Yellow Line (Washington Metro) Railway stations in the United States opened in 1976 1976 establishments in Washington, D.C. Railway stations located underground in Washington, D.C. Washington Metro stations located underground