Gallery Place – Chinatown (WMATA station)

Gallery Place
Washington Metro rapid transit station
The upper and lower platforms of the Gallery Place Metro Station complex. Green/Yellow line trains share the lower level island platform, while Red Line trains serve the side platformed upper level.
Location	630 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20001
Owned by	WMATA
Line(s)	Red Line Green Line Yellow Line
Platforms	2 side platforms (upper level) 1 island platform (lower level)
Tracks	4 (2 per level)
Connections	Metrobus: 42, 70, 74, 79, 80, P6, X2, X9
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	B01 (upper level) F01 (lower level)
History
Opened	December 15, 1976; 40 years ago (1976-12-15)
Previous names	Gallery Place (1976-1986) Gallery Place–Chinatown (1986-2011)
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	24,160 daily   10.71%
Services
Preceding station   Washington Metro   Following station Metro Center toward Shady Grove Red Line Judiciary Square toward Glenmont Archives toward Branch Avenue Green Line Mount Vernon Square toward Greenbelt Archives toward Huntington Yellow Line Weekday rush hour service Mount Vernon Square Terminus Yellow Line Not on weekdays rush hours Mount Vernon Square toward Fort Totten

Gallery Place 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 Green/Yellow Lines on the lower level.

Gallery Place is located in Northwest Washington, 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.

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.

Yellow Line service began on April 30, 1983, adding service to the Pentagon and National Airport. An abstract wall sculpture, The Yellow Line by Constance Fleures, was installed in 1989 on the lower level platform, Green Line service began in 1991, adding service (at the time) to U Street and Anacostia.