Gallery Place Chinatown
A Glenmont-bound Red Line train on the upper level of Gallery Place departing while a Branch Avenue-bound Green Line serves the lower level of the station in February 2023.
General information
Location	630H Street NW Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°53′56″N77°01′18″W / 38.89889°N 77.02167°W /38.89889; -77.02167
Platforms	2side platforms (upper level) 1island platform (lower level)
Tracks	4 (2 per level)
Connections	Metrobus:D20, D24,D2X,D30, D34, D36,D40,D4X, D94
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Depth	28 ft (8.5 m) (upper level) 41 ft (12 m) (lower level)[1]
Platform levels	2
Bicycle facilities	Capital Bikeshare
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	B01 (upper level) F01 (lower level)
History
Opened	December 15, 1976 (1976-12-15)
Previous names	Gallery Place (1976–1986; 2011-present) Gallery Place–Chinatown (1986–2011)
Passengers
2024	12,138 daily[2]
Rank	2 out of 98
Services
Preceding station Washington Metro Following station Archives towardBranch Avenue Green Line Mount Vernon Square towardGreenbelt Archives towardHuntington Yellow Line Mount Vernon Square towardMount Vernon Square orGreenbelt Metro Center towardShady Grove Red Line Judiciary Square towardGlenmont
Former services Preceding station Washington Metro Following station Metro Center towardFarragut North Green Line Commuter Shortcut Judiciary Square towardGreenbelt
Route map Mount Vernon Square Metro Center Judiciary Square Archives
Location

Gallery Place station is aWashington Metrostation inWashington, D.C., United States, on theGreen,Yellow andRed Lines. It is one of the 4 major transfer points, atransfer station between theRed Line on the upper level and theGreen/Yellow Lines on the lower level.

Gallery Place is located inNorthwest Washington, with entrances at7th and F, 7th andH, 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 beneathCapital One Arena, serves that arena and the surroundingChinatown andPenn Quarter neighborhoods in downtown Washington.

Like other downtown transfer stations, Gallery Place has a two-level configuration. However, unlike Metro Center andL'Enfant Plaza, 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 towardsJudiciary Square andUnion Station.^[3]

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.^[4]

Service began on December 15, 1976, as part of the original Red Line that ran fromFarragut North toRhode Island Avenue–Brentwood. The opening of the station was delayed by a court order over lack of accessibility for all (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 thePentagon andNational Airport stations. An abstract wall sculpture,The Yellow Line by Constance Fleures, was installed in 1989 on the lower-level platform,^[5] Green Line service began in 1991, adding service (at the time) toU Street andAnacostia.

Originally named Gallery Place after the nearbyNational Portrait Gallery andSmithsonian American Art Museum, the station was renamedGallery Place–Chinatown in 1986 (although the station's signage was not replaced until 1990).^{[citation needed]} By 1997, elevators at the east mezzanine were added as part of the construction of the Verizon Center.^{[citation needed]} In 2000, a sculpture entitledThe 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.^[6] The station reverted to its original name, Gallery Place, on November 3, 2011, with "Chinatown" listed as a subtitle.^[7]

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 receivetactile 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, redLEDs 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.^[8]

The station was closed from January 15–21, 2021, because of security concerns due to the2021 Inauguration.^[9]

Media related toGallery Place station at Wikimedia Commons

• WMATA Gallery Place station page

• 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

• 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.

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