Lincoln Theatre
Lincoln Theatre is a historic theater in Washington, D.C., located at 1215 U Street, next to Ben's Chili Bowl. The theater, located on "Washington's Black Broadway", served the city's African American community when segregation kept them out of other venues.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- 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.
Ben’s Chili Bowl
Fast food restaurant
Photo: SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Ben's Chili Bowl is a restaurant in Washington, D.C., 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.
True Reformer Building
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The True Reformer Building 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.
Logan Circle
Neighborhood
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
Logan Circle is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The majority of Logan Circle is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.
Shaw
Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.
Shaw is a neighborhood in north-central Washington D.C. just east of Dupont Circle and south of Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. Although it has a diverse population, Shaw is distinctive from the adjacent areas due to its African-American heritage.
Columbia Heights
Suburb
Photo: D Monack, Public domain.
Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and Columbia Heights 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
- Categories: movie theater, building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.9174° or 38° 55′ 3″ northLongitude
-77.02899° or 77° 1′ 44″ westOpen location code
87C4WX8C+XCOpenStreetMap ID
way 67133481OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=theatreOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q6551052
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Satellite Map
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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”
Places with the Same Name
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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.
Nearby Places
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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.