Dumbarton House is accessible by Metro. Take the Red Line to the Dupont Circle Station, Q Street North exit. The house is approximately six blocks west on Q Street, just over the Q Street Bridge into Georgetown – a short walk, or bus ride on the D-2 or D-6 bus lines.

DRIVING TO DUMBARTON HOUSE…
FROM THE NORTH: Down Wisconsin Avenue, turn left onto Q Street, drive 5.5 blocks to the house. Down Connecticut Avenue, turn right onto Florida Avenue, cross Massachusetts Avenue onto 22nd Street and turn right onto P Street, turn right onto 28th Street, turn right onto Q Street, go .5 blocks to the house.

FROM THE SOUTH: Up Interstate 395, bear onto Washington Boulevard (Virginia Highway 27) to and across Arlington Memorial Bridge, bear left of the Lincoln Memorial, turn left onto 23rd Street, go around Washington Circle and onto Pennsylvania Avenue toward Georgetown, turn right onto 28th Street, turn right onto Q Street, go .5 blocks to the house.

FROM THE WEST: Toward D.C. on Interstate 66, exit at Rosslyn, turn left on North Lynn Street, cross Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge, turn right on M Street, turn left on 28th Street, turn right onto Q Street, go .5 blocks to the house. OR: from U.S. Highway 50 or Interstate 66, cross Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge to Consitution Avenue, turn left onto 23rd Street, and pick up instructions coming from the south.

FROM THE EAST: Toward D.C. on New York Avenue (U.S. Highway 50) or Rhode Island Avenue (U.S. Highway 1): meet and turn right onto Massachusetts Avenue, go around Dupont Circle onto P Street, turn right on 28th Street, turn right on Q Street, go .5 block to the house.

PARKING: There is a small lot behind the house off 27th Street; street parking is residentially zoned at two hours for nonresidents, 7 a.m.-9 p.m., Monday through Saturday. ** Do NOT park on the gravel drive; pull into the paved lot behind iron gates.