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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.
1865 map of the Shepherd Parkway area; Fort Greble is near the southern end and Fort Carroll near the midpoint. The National Capital Parks and Planning Commission began acquiring land in 1927 for a parkway, Fort Drive, to connect a ring of parks made up of Civil War defenses around the city.
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The Ellipse is also the name of the five-furlong (1.0 km) circumference street within the park. The entire park, which features monuments, is open to the public and is part of President's Park. The Ellipse is the location for many annual events. From a mathematical point of view, the Ellipse is truly an ellipse. Its dimensions are 1,058 feet ...
1435–1437 Park Rd., NW. 38°55′51″N 77°02′02″W / 38.930747°N 77.033937°W / 38.930747; -77.033937 ( Kelsey Temple Church of God in Columbia Heights
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The homes in North Portal Estates are larger and more recent than the older homes in Shepherd Park. Racial covenants were prohibited by law by the 1968 Fair Housing Act. African-Americans began moving into North Portal Estates in the late 1960s and early 1970s, comprising two-thirds of the population by the 1980s as the older Jewish population ...