Major Walter Reed Memorial

Major Walter Reed Memorial is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Major Walter Reed Memorial is situated nearby to the neighborhood Colonial Village, as well as near the locality Blair Portal.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ohev Sholom Congregation and Silver Spring station.

Ohev Sholom Congregation

Synagogue

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Ohev Sholom Congregation is the oldest Orthodox synagogue in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. The synagogue was formed from the merger of two synagogues, Ohev Sholom and Talmud Torah.

Silver Spring station

Railway station

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Silver Spring station is a former train station on the Metropolitan Subdivision in Silver Spring in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was built in 1945 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on the foundation of a previous station, a Victorian-style brick structure built in 1878.

Lowell School

School

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Lowell School is an independent, diverse, co-educational preschool through 8th grade school located in the Colonial Village neighborhood near Shepherd Park Washington, D.C. The school was founded by Judith Grant and Susan Semple in 1965 during the Civil Rights Movement on the educational philosophies of Haim Ginott, Jean Piaget, Maria Montessori, John Dewey, and Friedrich Fröbel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colonial Village and North Portal Estates.

Colonial Village

Neighborhood

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Colonial Village is an area in northwest Washington, D.C., built in 1931 with 80 residences. The homes are reproductions of colonial buildings, such as the Moore House, where General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

North Portal Estates

Neighborhood

North Portal Estates is an affluent residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C. that forms the northernmost corner of the District of Columbia. North Portal Estates is bounded by North Portal Drive to the south, East Beach Drive to the west and northwest, and Rock Creek Park to the northeast.

Shepherd Park

Neighborhood

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Shepherd Park is a neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. In the years following World War II, restrictive covenants which had prevented Jews and African Americans from purchasing homes in the neighborhood were no longer enforced, and the neighborhood became largely Jewish and African American.

Major Walter Reed Memorial

Type: Park
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.989° or 38° 59′ 20″ north

Longitude

-77.03609° or 77° 2′ 10″ west

Elevation

259 feet (79 metres)

Open location code

87C4XXQ7+JH

GeoNames ID

4139492

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