Shepherd Recreation Center
Shepherd Recreation Center is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Shepherd Recreation Center is situated nearby to the neighborhood Shepherd Park, as well as near Colonial Village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Park
- Description: park in the United States of America
- Also known as: “Shepherd Field”
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 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
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 Shepherd Park and Colonial Village.
Shepherd Park
Neighborhood
Photo: thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Shepherd Recreation Center
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.98483° or 38° 59′ 5″ northLongitude
-77.03512° or 77° 2′ 6″ westElevation
299 feet (91 metres)Open location code
87C4XXM7+WXOpenStreetMap ID
way 1037391046OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
“Shepherd Recreation Center” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shepherd Recreation Center”
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Highlights include Washington Ethical Society and One Heart Sangha-Silver Spring Zendo.
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