Constitution Hall
- Architect
- John Russell Pope
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
DAR Constitution Hall is a concert hall at 1776 D Street NW, built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution after its membership outgrew the neighboring Memorial Continental Hall. Designed by architect John Russell Pope, it seats 3,702 people and remains owned and operated by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, functioning as one of the city's major cultural venues since it opened.
the building
The auditorium. The hall seats 3,702: 2,208 in the tiers and 1,234 on the orchestra level, with 52 boxes of five seats each separating the orchestra from the tiers above, making it the city's largest auditorium at the time.
the style
Pope worked in a Neoclassical idiom for the DAR, a style suited to a patriotic membership organization building its ceremonial home near the White House and the Ellipse.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
John Russell Pope designed DAR Constitution Hall, which opened in 1929 just east of the Department of the Interior, between the American Red Cross and the Organization of American States headquarters.
significance
Constitution Hall was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a DC Historic Landmark.
nearby
- Memorial Continental Hall
- American National Red Cross
- Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building
- Pan American Union (Organization of American States)
- Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Lockkeeper's House, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Extension