Gallery Place–Chinatown is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Green, Red and Yellow Lines. It is a transfer station between the Red Line on the upper level and the other two lines on the lower level.
Gallery Place–Chinatown is located in Northwest, with entrances at 7th and F, 7th and H, and 9th and G Streets. The station's only street elevator is north of F Street on the west side of 7th Street.
The station, which is beneath the Verizon Center, serves that arena and the surrounding Chinatown and Penn Quarter 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.
The station was originally named "Gallery Place" after the nearby National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 1986, "Chinatown" was added to the station name, and in 2000, a large Chinese-style fan, entitled The Glory of the Chinese Descendants, was installed over the 7th and H Street entrance.
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.
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2002-11-29 Comments: Fan above the Chinatown entrance. This fan is formally known as The Glory of the Chinese Descendants, and was installed in 2000. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2002-11-29 Comments: Detail of The Glory of the Chinese Descendants. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2003-02-03 Comments: Glenmont platform viewed from far outbound end. |
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Vehicle: Rohr Service: WMATA Red Line Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2003-02-08 Comments: A Rohr train waits on the platform while the train operator speaks with a customer. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2003-08-09 Comments: The Glory of the Chinese Descendants after an electrical problem caused the sign to go dark. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-01-03 Comments: South end of the station, where First American Bank's Metro Art I - "Yellow Line" artwork hangs, as seen from bridge over the Red Line tracks. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-01-17 Comments: Intersection of the ceiling vaults at Gallery Pl-Chinatown. This is one of three places where this architectural feature occurs (the others being Metro Center and L'Enfant Plaza). |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-01-17 Comments: Station name plaque and strip map on the Red Line platform at Gallery Pl-Chinatown. This is one of two styles of strip maps on the upper level platform. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-01-17 Comments: Station entrance pylon, Chinatown entrance. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-01-17 Comments: Red Line platform looking in the outbound direction. At this station, the vaults intersect at the far outbound end of the station. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-05-08 Comments: View of inbound end of Gallery Pl-Chinatown platform. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Station entrance pylon, Chinatown entrance. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: "Gallery Place North" on sign over Chinatown entrance. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Station entrance pylon at the then-MCI Center entrance. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Escalators at the then-MCI Center entrance. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Inbound view of upper level platforms, seen from the outbound platform. |
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Vehicle: Rohr Service: WMATA Red Line Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-08-28 Comments: Train in foreground is on inbound track. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2004-08-28 Comments: PIDS screen showing a Red Line train to Union Station arriving shortly. On this particular occasion, trains were actually terminating at Judiciary Square and not Union Station. The trains' signs were set to "SPECIAL", but the trains' destination code was set for Union Station, as there was no destination code specifically for Judiciary Square. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2005-04-27 Comments: Station name plaque, and strip map. This strip map design lays out all stations in a line, and uses arrows to indicate the direction of travel. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2005-09-14 Comments: Chinatown entrance to Gallery Pl-Chinatown station. Note the Chinese characters above the English. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2006-05-20 Comments: Back side of zoetrope advertisement at the outbound end of Gallery Pl-Chinatown station. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2006-05-20 Comments: PIDS screen showing the next three trains. Short-turn trains are terminating at Medical Center instead of Grosvenor on this particular day due to track maintenance. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2006-08-30 Comments: North mezzanine. The Chinatown fan is directly opposite the kiosk, behind the camera. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2006-08-30 Comments: Ceiling detail over the north entrance's street escalators. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2006-09-12 Comments: Detail over west entrance street escalators. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2006-10-11 Comments: Zoetrope box used to display animated in-tunnel ads to riders on the outbound track. Two of these boxes were installed: This one, and another east of Metro Center, both on Track 1. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2006-12-27 Comments: Chinatown entrance to Gallery Pl-Chinatown station. Note the Chinese characters above the English. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2007-03-01 Comments: Upper level, facing inbound, seen from the outbound (Glenmont) platform. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2007-03-17 Comments: Red lighting along the platform edge. Gallery Pl-Chinatown was used as a testing location for LED platform lighting. The lower level tested orange LEDs, while the upper level tested red LEDs. The red LEDs were eventually adopted and deployed to other stations in the system. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2007-12-09 Comments: Flat-screen display suspended from the ceiling in the east mezzanine (under the junction of the ceiling vaults) displaying train information. |
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Vehicle: Rohr Service: WMATA Red Line Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2008-10-04 Comments: Train is on outbound track. |
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Vehicle: CAF 5049 (closest to camera), CAF 5048 (second) Service: WMATA Red Line Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2009-04-18 Comments: Train is on outbound track. View is facing outbound. |
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Location: Gallery Place (Upper Level) Date: 2009-04-18 Comments: Outbound view of Gallery Place upper level, seen from inbound platform. |
