KCThe Kenyon Colonial749 Kenyon Street NW
Aerial view of Park View and Columbia Heights rowhouses at golden hour with the Washington Monument beyond

Park View / Columbia Heights · Ward 1

Everything within a mile

2 min
St. Vincent Wine & Sonny's Pizza
6 min
Wonderland Ballroom
7 min
El Chucho
11 min
Columbia Heights Metro
11 min
Target, Lidl & Best Buy
12 min
Downtown by rail

The four everyone asks about

Evening street scene near 3130 Georgia Ave NW, minutes on foot from 749 Kenyon Street NW

~0.1 mi · 2 min on foot

St. Vincent Wine

3130 Georgia Ave NW

One block east. A wine garden and bottle shop with live jazz under string lights — the closest thing this house has to a front room away from home. Sonny's Pizza, square slices and natural wine, is next door at 3120.

Evening street scene near 1101 Kenyon St NW, minutes on foot from 749 Kenyon Street NW

~0.3 mi · 6 min on foot

Wonderland Ballroom

1101 Kenyon St NW

Walk out the front door, turn right, and keep going — Wonderland sits at the far end of Kenyon Street. Corner bar downstairs, dance floor and beer garden up. No turns required.

Evening street scene near 3313 11th St NW, minutes on foot from 749 Kenyon Street NW

~0.35 mi · 7 min on foot

El Chucho

3313 11th St NW

Tacos and margaritas under the string lights of the rooftop, with all-night happy hour on Mondays. Queen's English, The Coupe and Odd Provisions are within two blocks of it.

Evening street scene near 14th & Irving St NW, minutes on foot from 749 Kenyon Street NW

~0.55 mi · 11 min on foot

Columbia Heights Metro

14th & Irving St NW

Green and Yellow lines, twelve minutes to Gallery Place. Georgia Ave–Petworth is the same two lines about 0.5 mi north, so the house has two stations inside a twelve-minute walk.

Neighborhood images are illustrative evening scenes of the corridor, not photographs of the named businesses.

One of the last DC blocks where you can own a garden, hear nothing at night, and still walk to the train.

This quarter was built out as a streetcar suburb once the 14th Street line climbed the hill from downtown. That history is why the blocks are dense but leafy, the rowhouses deep and narrow, and the commercial spine — 14th Street and the 11th Street corridor — walkable rather than driven.

Kenyon Street sits on the quiet side of that spine: residential, traffic-calmed, tree-canopied, and two turns from a Green Line platform that reaches Gallery Place in roughly ten minutes.

Protected green bike lane along a quiet tree-lined DC rowhouse street

Bike lanes and a low-traffic street

Protected lanes pick up at the corner and run into the Georgia Avenue and 11th Street network — a continuous ride downtown and to Rock Creek without merging into traffic. A Capital Bikeshare dock sits within a block. Kenyon itself is residential and traffic-calmed, not a cut-through.

Sidewalk dining and warm storefront light on a DC restaurant corridor in the evening

Dinner is a walk, not a drive

Six minutes to Odd Provisions, seven to El Chucho, eight to Queen's English and The Coupe — and St. Vincent and Sonny's are one block east on Georgia Avenue. Saturday mornings, the Columbia Heights farmers market runs year-round, eleven minutes out.

Within one block

  • St. Vincent Wine — 3130 Georgia Ave NW

    ~0.1 mi · 2 min · wine garden, jazz, bottle shop

  • Sonny's Pizza — 3120 Georgia Ave NW

    ~0.1 mi · 2 min · square slices, natural wine

  • Major Yum — 3200 Georgia Ave NW

    ~0.15 mi · 3 min · sandwiches and provisions

  • Georgia Avenue buses — 79 Limited, 70, H8

    1 block · 2 min · 24-hour service

  • Protected bike lane + Capital Bikeshare dock

    1 block · 2 min · Rock Creek in ~10 min by bike

Five to eight minutes on foot

  • Midlands Beer Garden — 3333 Georgia Ave NW

    ~0.25 mi · 5 min · picnic tables, rotating drafts

  • Wonderland Ballroom — 1101 Kenyon St NW

    ~0.3 mi · 6 min · straight down Kenyon, no turns

  • Odd Provisions — 3113 11th St NW

    ~0.3 mi · 6 min · corner market, craft beer, natural wine

  • Hook Hall — 3400 Georgia Ave NW

    ~0.3 mi · 6 min · beer garden, cabanas, seasonal pop-ups

  • El Chucho — 3313 11th St NW

    ~0.35 mi · 7 min · tacos, rooftop, Monday all-night happy hour

  • Queen's English — 3410 11th St NW

    ~0.4 mi · 8 min · James Beard-recognized Hong Kong cooking

  • The Coupe — 3415 11th St NW

    ~0.4 mi · 8 min · café and all-day diner

  • Qui Qui — 3412 11th St NW

    ~0.4 mi · 8 min · Puerto Rican, chef Ismael Mendez

Metro & rail

  • Georgia Ave–Petworth Metro (Green / Yellow)

    ~0.5 mi · 10 min · Georgia Ave & New Hampshire

  • Columbia Heights Metro (Green / Yellow)

    ~0.55 mi · 11 min · 14th & Irving St NW

  • Gallery Place / Chinatown

    ~12 min by rail · no transfer

  • Union Station

    ~20 min by rail · one transfer at Gallery Place

Groceries, big box & everyday

  • Target — 3100 14th St NW (DC USA)

    ~0.55 mi · 11 min · with CVS pharmacy and Starbucks inside

  • Lidl — 3100 14th St NW

    ~0.55 mi · 11 min · lower level of DC USA

  • Best Buy — 3100 14th St NW

    ~0.55 mi · 11 min · DC USA

  • Marshalls, Petco & DSW — DC USA

    ~0.55 mi · 11 min · the block that used to hold Bed Bath & Beyond

  • Giant Food — 1345 Park Rd NW

    ~0.6 mi · 12 min · full-service grocery, garage parking

  • CAVA — 3105 14th St NW

    ~0.55 mi · 11 min

  • Taco Bell Cantina — 3100 14th St NW

    ~0.55 mi · 11 min · open late

  • Starbucks — 1401 Irving St NW

    ~0.6 mi · 12 min · plus the kiosk inside Target

  • Columbia Heights Farmers Market

    ~0.55 mi · 11 min · Saturdays, year-round at 14th & Park

Parks & green

  • Bruce Monroe Community Park — Georgia & Irving

    ~0.3 mi · 6 min · playground and garden plots

  • Wangari Gardens — Irving & Park Pl NW

    ~0.4 mi · 8 min · urban farm, orchard, community plots

  • 11th Street Dog Park — 11th & Monroe

    ~0.45 mi · 9 min · fenced run

  • Rock Creek Park — Piney Branch Parkway

    ~1.2 mi · 24 min on foot, ~7 min by bike

Beyond the block

Mount Pleasant, Petworth, Columbia Heights and Rock Creek — all inside a mile.

  • Mount Pleasant

    ~1.0 mi · Sunday farmers market, Lamont Street shops

  • Petworth

    ~0.5 mi · Upshur Street restaurants, Yes! Organic

  • Columbia Heights

    ~0.6 mi · DC USA, Tivoli, GALA Hispanic Theatre

  • Shaw / U Street

    ~1.2 mi · one Metro stop south

  • Bloomingdale

    ~1.0 mi · Big Bear Cafe, Red Hen

  • Rock Creek Park

    ~1.2 mi · trailheads at Piney Branch Parkway

Distances are approximate walking, cycling, and transit estimates from 749 Kenyon Street NW and should be independently verified. School attendance boundaries change; verify current DCPS assignment directly. Nothing here is a representation about the character or composition of a neighborhood's residents.

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