Shepherd Park
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood of Washington, DC
- Also known as: “Shepherd Park, Washington, D.C.”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ohev Sholom Congregation and Silver Spring station.
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 earlier synagogues, Ohev Sholom and Talmud Torah.
Silver Spring station
Historic building
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colonial Village and North Portal Estates.
Colonial Village
Neighborhood
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 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.
Shepherd Park
- Categories: neighborhood of Washington, D.C. and locality
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.98266° or 38° 58′ 58″ northLongitude
-77.03196° or 77° 1′ 55″ westElevation
305 feet (93 metres)Open location code
87C4XXM9+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 158337811OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Shepherd Park” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Shepherd Park”
- French: “Shepherd Park”
- German: “Shepherd Park”
- Italian: “Shepherd Park”
- Slovenian: “Shepherd Park”
- Spanish: “Shepherd Park”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shepard Park Community Garden and Marvin Caplan Memorial Park.
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