Shepherd Playground
Shepherd Playground is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Shepherd Playground is situated nearby to the neighborhood Colonial Village, as well as near Shepherd Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ohev Sholom Congregation and Lowell School.
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 earlier 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
Historic building
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colonial Village and Rock Creek Gardens.
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.
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.
Silver Spring
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Silver Spring is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is considered to be an "edge city". It sits next door to Washington, DC, and had about 82,000 residents in 2018.
Shepherd Playground
- Type: Park
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.98483° or 38° 59′ 5″ northLongitude
-77.03525° or 77° 2′ 7″ westElevation
266 feet (81 metres)Open location code
87C4XXM7+WVGeoNames ID
4140473
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Shepherd Park and Georgia Avenue / Walter Reed.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shepherd Recreation Center and Major Walter Reed Memorial.
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