North Portal Estates

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "North Portal Estates" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

Map of Washington, D.C., with North Portal Estates highlighted in red

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. It is not set on any major thoroughfare in the city, although North Portal Drive is accessible via a rotary intersection on 16th Street NW.

Because of its isolation via the park and lack of major streets, the neighborhood is extraordinarily suburban in character, full of winding streets, detached houses on large lots, and open space.

North Portal Estates and the rest of Ward 4 are represented in the Council of the District of Columbia by Janeese Lewis George.

The community was mostly Jewish, in contrast to the nearby Colonial Village, which was a mostly Protestant neighborhood.[1] The community was constructed by wealthy Jewish families in the 1950s and 1960s, following the 1948 Supreme Court decision striking down racially restrictive covenants. 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 began to move away or die. By the early 1980s, North Portal Estates had become a premier neighborhood for upper-middle-class African-American professionals in Washington, D.C., including doctors, lawyers, business people, clergy, and politicians.[2] While mostly black, the neighborhood is multiracial as some white Jewish families have remained in the neighborhood.[3] By the 2010s, the neighborhood was still predominantly upscale, but had become home to a more socioeconomically and racially mixed population.[4]

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Historical Dictionary of Washington, Part 3 (eds. Robert Benedetto, Jane Donovan & Kathleen Du Vall (Scarecrow Press, 2003), pp. 192-93.
2. ^ "History". Civic League of North Portal Estates. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
3. ^ "North Portal Estates Up Town". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
4. ^ "North Portal Estates is an 'unknown jewel' at the tip of the diamond". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-01-19.

* v
* t
* e

Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.

Ward 1|

* Adams Morgan
* Columbia Heights
* Kalorama Triangle
* Lanier Heights
* LeDroit Park
* Meridian Hill
* Mount Pleasant
* Park View
* Pleasant Plains
* U Street Corridor (Cardozo/Shaw)
* Woodley Park

Ward 2|

* Burleith
* Chinatown
* Downtown
* Dupont Circle
* Foggy Bottom
* Georgetown
* Sheridan-Kalorama
* Logan Circle
* Mount Vernon Square
* Penn Quarter
* Shaw
* Southwest Federal Center
* West End

Ward 3|

* American University Park
* Berkley
* Cathedral Heights
* Chevy Chase
* Cleveland Park
* Colony Hill
* Forest Hills
* Foxhall
* Friendship Heights
* Glover Park
* Kent
* Massachusetts Heights
* McLean Gardens
* North Cleveland Park
* Observatory Circle
* The Palisades
* Potomac Heights
* Spring Valley
* Tenleytown
* Wakefield
* Wesley Heights
* Woodland Normanstone
* Woodley Park

Ward 4|

* Barnaby Woods
* Brightwood
* Brightwood Park
* Chevy Chase
* Colonial Village
* Crestwood
* Fort Stevens Ridge
* Fort Totten
* Hawthorne
* Manor Park
* North Portal Estates
* Petworth
* Queens Chapel
* Riggs Park
* Shepherd Park
* Sixteenth Street Heights
* Takoma

Ward 5|

* Arboretum
* Bloomingdale
* Brentwood
* Brookland
* Carver Langston
* Eckington
* Edgewood
* Fort Lincoln
* Fort Totten
* Gateway
* Ivy City
* Langdon
* Michigan Park
* North Michigan Park
* Pleasant Hill
* Queens Chapel
* Stronghold-Metropolis View
* Trinidad
* Truxton Circle
* Woodridge

Ward 6|

* Barney Circle
* Capitol Hill
* Judiciary Square
* Mount Vernon Triangle
* Near Northeast
* NoMa
* Southwest Waterfront
* Sursum Corda
* Swampoodle

Ward 7|

* Benning
* Benning Heights
* Benning Ridge
* Burrville
* Capitol View
* Central Northeast
* Civic Betterment
* Deanwood
* Dupont Park
* East River Heights
* Eastland Gardens
* Fairfax Village
* Fort Davis
* Fort Dupont
* Fort Stanton
* Good Hope
* Greenway
* Hillbrook
* Hillcrest
* Kenilworth
* Kingman Park
* Lincoln Heights
* Marshall Heights
* Mayfair
* Naylor Gardens
* Northeast Boundary
* Penn Branch
* Randle Highlands
* River Terrace
* Twining

Ward 8|

* Anacostia
* Barry Farm
* Bellevue
* Buena Vista
* Congress Heights
* Douglass
* Fairlawn
* Garfield Heights
* Navy Yard
* Park Naylor
* Shipley Terrace
* Skyland
* Washington Highlands
* Woodland

38°59′36.6″N 77°2′25.4″W﻿ / ﻿38.993500°N 77.040389°W﻿ / 38.993500; -77.040389

This article about a location in Washington, D.C., is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template