Ford's Theatre NHS-Star Saloon (south addition)
- Year
- 1965
- Style
- Georgian
- City
- Washington, DC
This storefront at 509 11th Street NW is the Star Saloon, the south addition to Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. Ford's Theatre itself began as a Baptist meeting house built in 1833, was converted into a theater by John T. Ford in 1861, rebuilt after an 1862 fire, and became the site of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865. After decades as a warehouse and government office building, it reopened as a working theater in 1968.
the building
Storefront on 11th Street. The Star Saloon presents a modest storefront on 11th Street, distinct from the theatrical front of Ford's Theatre next door, and is preserved as part of the same National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service alongside the Petersen House, where Lincoln died.
the style
The Star Saloon addition is built in a Georgian idiom, keeping its 11th Street storefront modest compared to the theater it adjoins.
More on Georgiansignificance
The building carries two individual DC Historic Landmark designations and National Register of Historic Places listing, and forms part of Ford's Theatre National Historic Site.
nearby
- National Union Building
- Washington Loan and Trust Company
- J. Edgar Hoover Building
- The Gallup Building
- McLachlen Building
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library