Brightwood Park is a small neighborhood in Northwest

Washington, D.C. (northwest)

Northwest is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street...

 Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 in the USA. The neighborhood is bounded by Georgia Avenue

Georgia Avenue

Georgia Avenue is a major north-south artery in Northwest Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. Within the District of Columbia and a short distance in Silver Spring, Maryland, Georgia Avenue is also U.S. Route 29...

 NW to the west, Missouri Avenue NW to the northeast and Kennedy Street NW to the south. It is located in Ward 4, which is represented in the Council of the District of Columbia

Council of the District of Columbia

The Council of the District of Columbia is the legislative branch of the local government of the District of Columbia. As permitted in the United States Constitution, the District is not part of any U.S. state and is instead overseen directly by the federal government...

 by Muriel Bowser

Muriel Bowser

Muriel Bowser is a Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 4.-Early life:...

.

Brightwood Park is largely characterized by rowhouses

Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls...

, detached and semi-detached

Semi-detached

Semi-detached housing consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin...

 houses, and small neighborhood businesses. The neighborhood is often misidentified as being part of adjacent neighborhoods, such as the Brightwood

Brightwood, Washington, D.C.

Brightwood is a neighborhood located in the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C. Brightwood and the rest of Ward 4 are represented in the Council of the District of Columbia by Muriel Bowser.- Geography :...

 neighborhood, the Petworth

Petworth, Washington, D.C.

Petworth is a residential neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., bounded by Georgia Avenue to the west, North Capitol Street to the east, Rock Creek Church Road to the south, and Kennedy Street NW to the north...

 neighborhood to the south and the Manor Park

Manor Park, Washington, D.C.

Manor Park is an averaged-sized neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C.. The 1967 National Capitol Planning Commission 1967 "District Communities" map indicates this neighborhood is roughly bounded by Fifth Street NW on the west, North Capitol Street and Blair Road on the east, Aspen Street to...

 neighborhood to the north.

Notable buildings

• Hampshire Garden Apartment Buildings
  Hampshire Garden Apartment Buildings
  Hampshire Garden Apartment Buildings are historic structures located in the Brightwood Park neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.-History:...
  
  , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D. C.
  National Register of Historic Places listings in the upper NW Quadrant of Washington, D. C.
  This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. that are both east of Rock Creek and north of M Street.-Current listings:...