Ford’s Theatre

Ford's Theatre is a theater in , which opened in 1863. In 1865, it was the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
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  • Type: Theater building
  • Description: theater in Washington, DC
  • Also known as: “Ford’s Theater”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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The , a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.

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The is a museum in , part of the . Together with its branch museum, the , SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States from the colonial period to the present. is situated 740 feet northeast of Ford’s Theatre.

Museum
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The is a 19th-century federal style row house in the United States in , located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East End and Downtown.

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is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.

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is the central business district of , located in It is the third largest central business district in the United States.

Neighborhood
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's is a small, historic area of Downtown Washington, D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest. The area was once home to thousands of Chinese immigrants, but fewer than 300 remained in 2017.

Ford’s Theatre

Latitude
38.89663° or 38° 53′ 48″ north
Longitude
-77.02565° or 77° 1′ 32″ west
Open location code
87C4VXWF+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 152132898
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­theatre
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­government
Wiki­data ID
Q1416812
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ford’s Theatre” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مسرح فورد”
  • Armenian: “Ֆորդի թատրոն”
  • Basque: “Ford Antzokia”
  • Bulgarian: “Театър на Форд”
  • Chinese: “福特剧院”
  • Chinese: “福特劇院”
  • Cornish: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Czech: “Fordovo divadlo”
  • Dutch: “Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site”
  • Dutch: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسرح فورد”
  • Esperanto: “Teatro Ford”
  • French: “théâtre Ford”
  • French: “Théâtre Ford”
  • Georgian: “ფორდის თეატრი”
  • German: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Hebrew: “תיאטרון פורד”
  • Indonesian: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Indonesian: “Teater Ford”
  • Italian: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Italian: “Teatro Ford”
  • Japanese: “フォード劇場”
  • Korean: “포드 극장”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോർഡ് തീയേറ്റർ”
  • N'Ko: “ߝߐߙߘ ߕߋߦߊߕߙߌ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Norwegian: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Persian: “تئاتر فورد”
  • Persian: “تیاتر فورد”
  • Polish: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Portuguese: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Portuguese: “Teatro Ford”
  • Russian: “Театр Форда”
  • Scots: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Slovenian: “Ford’s Theatre”
  • Spanish: “Teatro Ford”
  • Swedish: “Fordteatern”
  • Thai: “โรงละครฟอร์ด”
  • Ukrainian: “Театр Форда”
  • Urdu: “فورڈز تھیٹر”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà hát Ford”
  • Vietnamese: “Rạp hát Ford”

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