local news outlets. Washington died at Howard University Hospital on October 27, 2003. Hundreds of mourners came to see him lying in state at the John A. Wilson Building (City Hall), and also attended his funeral at Washington National Cathedral. Legacy and honors 13½ Street, the short alley running alongside the east side of the Wilson Building, was designated Walter E. Washington Way in his honor. A new housing development in Ward 8 was named the Walter E. Washington Estates. In 2006, the Council of the District of Columbia named the Washington Convention Center at 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW, as the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. References External links FBI Files pertaining to Walter Washington Walter Washington's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project Walter E. Washington Archival Papers housed at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center |- |- Mayors of Washington, D.C. African-American mayors of Washington, D.C. African-American people in Washington, D.C., politics Washington, D.C., government officials 20th-century American politicians 20th-century African-American politicians 21st-century African-American people Politicians from Jamestown, New York Howard University School of Law alumni People from Dawson, Georgia 1915 births 2003 deaths