Colonial Village
Colonial Village is an area in northwest Washington, D.C., built in 1931 with 80 residences.
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. The community was mostly Protestant, in contrast to the nearby 220-house North Portal Estates, which was a mostly Jewish neighborhood. When the community was first constructed in 1931, the neighborhood was exclusively populated by white Protestants as black and Jewish people were prohibited from living in Colonial Village. The land on which Colonial Village lies was once the 145 acre plantation of slaveowner Phillip Fenwick. After the mid-20th century, both Colonial Village and North Portal Estates became part of Shepherd Park.
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Worth seeing in and around Colonial Village
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Washington D.C. Temple
The Washington D.C. Temple is the 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in Kensington, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., and the Capital Beltway, it became the church's first temple east of the Mississippi River since the original Nauvoo Temple, completed in 1846.
3.6 km · temple of the LDS church · Wikipedia - 02National Museum of Health and Medicine
The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum in 1862; it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2012. An element of the Defense Health Agency, the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.
2.5 km · museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 03William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
The William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center is a tennis venue located in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., United States It is named after William H. G. FitzGerald, a Washington-based private investor who was active in philanthropies and served as United States Ambassador to Ireland. It houses 15 hard courts and 10 clay courts.
3.7 km · tennis venue in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 04Washington Adventist University
Washington Adventist University is a private Seventh-day Adventist university in Takoma Park, Maryland.
3.7 km · university in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 05Fort Stevens
Fort Stevens, formerly named Fort Massachusetts, was part of the extensive fortifications built around Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War.
2.8 km · historic fort in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 06NOAA Central Library
The NOAA Library is one of a network of nine libraries serving as the primary information hub for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
1.2 km · central library of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration library network · Wikipedia - 07Hughes Memorial Tower
The Hughes Memorial Tower is a radio tower in Washington, D.C., at 6001 Georgia Avenue, near the intersection of 9th Street NW and Peabody Street NW. At 761 ft, it is the tallest structure of any kind in the district, surpassing the Washington Monument by more than 200 ft and the WTTG Television Tower by 55 ft. It is the second-tallest freestanding structure in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, after the 809-foot tall River Road Tower in Bethesda, Maryland.
3.1 km · radio tower in Washington, DC · Wikipedia - 08Takoma Park Neighborhood Library
The Takoma Park Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that serves the Takoma neighborhood. It opened in 1911.
2.4 km · public library in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 09Fort Slocum
Fort Slocum was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., built in the Northeast quadrant of the city after the beginning of the war by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army. From west to east, the forts were as follows: Fort Slocum, Fort Totten, Fort Slemmer, Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Saratoga, Fort Thayer and Fort Lincoln.
3.9 km · historical fort in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 10Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue
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.
600 m · Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Colonial Village
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 15 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 36 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 38 km
- Stations
- Takoma, 2.5 km · Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, 1.4 km
- Richmond → Colonial Village634 km · quickest by air, 7h 28m · $230–340
- Philadelphia → Colonial Village24 km · quickest by road, 43 min · $2.5–3.5
- Norfolk → Colonial Village735 km · quickest by air, 7h 20m · $230–330
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- Go nextHarpers Ferry — West of Frederick on US-340, famous for Civil War history and natural beauty.
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Next door to Colonial Village
Colonial Village is 10 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Forest Glen Parkneighborhood in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States3 km
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- Coolidge Senior High Schoolpublic high school in Washington, District of Columbia, United States3 km
- Brightwood Parkneighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States3.7 km
- Fort Stevens Ridgeneighborhood in Washington, D.C.3 km
- Manor Parkneighborhood of Washington, D.C.3.5 km