Lincoln Theatre

Lincoln Theatre is a historic theater in , located at 1215 U Street, next to . The theater, located on "Washington's Black Broadway", served the city's African American community when segregation kept them out of other venues.
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  • Type: Theater building
  • Description: historic theater and movie theater in Washington, D.C.
  • Address: 1215 U Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20009

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ben’s Chili Bowl and Harrison Recreation Center.

Fast food restaurant
Ben's Chili Bowl is a restaurant in , United States, located at 1213 U Street, next to Lincoln Theatre, in the U Street Corridor, also known as the Cardozo/Shaw neighborhood in Northwest D.C.

Building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is an historic building constructed for the Grand United Order of True Reformers, an African American organization founded by William Washington Browne.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Logan Circle and Shaw.

Neighborhood
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of , located in Northwest D.C. The majority of is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.

is a neighborhood in north-central Washington D.C. just east of and south of and . Although it has a diverse population, is distinctive from the adjacent areas due to its African-American heritage.

Suburb
Photo: D Monack, Public domain.
Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and are three bordering neighborhoods in Washington DC, each with a different character, but united in an unmistakable sense of dynamism, diversity, youth, and nightlife.

Lincoln Theatre

Latitude
38.9174° or 38° 55′ 3″ north
Longitude
-77.02899° or 77° 1′ 44″ west
Open location code
87C4WX8C+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 67133481
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­theatre
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q6551052
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In Other Languages

From Japanese to Urdu—“Lincoln Theatre” goes by many names.
  • Japanese: リンカーンシアター
  • Serbian: Позориште Линколн
  • Spanish: Lincoln Theatre
  • Urdu: لنکن تھیٹر (واشنگٹن، ڈی سی)
  • Urdu: لنکن تھیٹر

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include DC Department of Parks and Recreation and DC Department of General Service and Walker Memorial Baptist Church.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lincoln Theatre”. Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5.