Montgomery Blair Portal

Montgomery Blair Portal is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Montgomery Blair Portal is situated nearby to the neighborhood Colonial Village, as well as near North Portal Estates.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ohev Sholom Congregation and Lowell School.

Ohev Sholom Congregation

Synagogue

Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Lowell School

School

Photo: Kesasummers, Public domain.

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.

Silver Spring station

Railway station

Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colonial Village and North Portal Estates.

Colonial Village

Neighborhood

Photo: Egunt07, CC BY 3.0.

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.

Rock Creek Gardens

Neighborhood

Rock Creek Gardens is an affluent residential condominium neighborhood in Northwest, Washington, D.C.. It is bounded by West Beach Drive to the east and northeast, Parkside Drive to the south and southwest, and Rock Creek Park to the northeast.

Montgomery Blair Portal

Type: Park
Also known as: “Blair Portal”
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.98928° or 38° 59′ 21″ north

Longitude

-77.03998° or 77° 2′ 24″ west

Elevation

203 feet (62 metres)

Open location code

87C4XXQ6+P2

GeoNames ID

4139646

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