page_title: Lowell School (Washington, D.C.)
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Lowell School (Washington, D.C.) / Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: The Lowell School in Washington, D.C., which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Marjorie Webster Junior College Historic District.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Lowell School occupies a historic campus with three buildings, three playgrounds, two outdoor classrooms, an athletic field, a garden, a green roof, and Kalmia Creek. The Main Building contains Primary School classrooms, the Pre-Primary School rooms, a makerspace, rooftop science lab, the Primary School library and Pre-Primary Book Nook, a gym, a heated swimming pool, two art studios, and a dance studio. 
  Parkside, located along 17th Street NW and next to Rock Creek Park, holds Middle School classrooms, an engineering fabrication lab, a science lab, the Berkeley Library, two art studios, a makerspace, woodshop, and a black box theater. Marjorie Webster House, bordering Kalmia Road, houses various administrative offices, and a second creative woodshop. A fourth building (Frazier, a former dormitory) was razed in 2016.
  There are three named spaces on campus including the Berkeley Library in the Middle School, the Gail Shandler playground in front of the Pre-Primary entrance, and the Debbie Gibbs back playground.
caption: The Main Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Marjorie Webster Junior College Historic District.
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