Katherine Dunham Museum
Katherine Dunham Museum is a museum in St. Clair, Illinois which is located on Pennsylvania Avenue. Katherine Dunham Museum is situated nearby to the place of worship Agudas Achim Congregation, as well as near Charity Church.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Majestic Theatre and The Dome at America’s Center.
Majestic Theatre
Heritage site
Photo: binkle 28, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Majestic Theatre is a historic movie theater located at 240–246 Collinsville Ave. in East St. Louis, Illinois. Built in 1928, the theater replaced a 1907 theater which had burned down. Majestic Theatre is situated 3,800 feet west of Katherine Dunham Museum.
The Dome at America’s Center
Stadium
Photo: Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0.
The Dome at America's Center is a multi-purpose stadium used for concerts, major conventions, and sporting events in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The Dome at America’s Center is situated 2½ miles west of Katherine Dunham Museum.
Gateway Arch
Monument
The Gateway City of St. Louis is the epitome of the modern Midwestern metropolis. Missouri's second-largest city is vibrant but laid-back, populous but navigable, historic but still relevant. Gateway Arch is situated 2 miles west of Katherine Dunham Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East St. Louis and National City.
East St. Louis
Photo: davidwilson1949, CC BY 2.0.
East St. Louis, commonly abbreviated as "ESL", is a city in Southern Illinois directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. It is a sprawling city with about 18,000 people, down from about 82,000 in the 1950s.
National City
Hamlet
National City was a suburb of East St. Louis, Illinois. Incorporated in 1907, it was a company town for the St. Louis National Stockyards Company. In 1996, the company, which owned all residential property in the town, evicted all of its residents.
Brooklyn
Village
Brooklyn, is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Brooklyn had a population of 649. Located two miles north of East St. Louis, Illinois and three miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, it is the oldest majority-Black incorporated town in the United States, founded by freed and fugitive slaves and incorporated in 1873. Brooklyn is situated 2½ miles northwest of Katherine Dunham Museum.
Katherine Dunham Museum
- Type: Museum
- Address: 1005 Pennsylvania Avenue, East Saint Louis, IL 62201
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: St. Clair, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.62877° or 38° 37′ 44″ northLongitude
-90.14457° or 90° 8′ 41″ westOpen location code
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