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Washington Theatre ยท 1805 Amsterdam Avenue
Washington Theatre
Washington Theatre
Theatre, Washington, Amsterdam Ave. & 149th Street, Interiors.
Facade of the Washington Theatre, located on Amsterdam Avenue at 149th Street, New York City.
IMAGE DATE1910
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Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New YorkWashington Theatre ca. 1910
Thomas W. Lamb's (1871-1942) Washington Theatre, at 1801-1807 Amsterdam Avenue and 149th Street, was more modestly made of tapestry brick and used comic and tragic masks as keystones. Here, the proscenium painting was an eighteenth-century pastoral scene; the fireproof asbestos stage curtain displayed Washington crossing the Delaware. Today, the building serves as the Childs Memorial Temple Church of God in Christ and was the setting of Malcolm X in 1965.
ByMuseum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New York