Fords Theatre [Washington]
type: Item
label: Fords Theatre
label: Fordovo divadlo @cs
label: Teatro Ford @it
description: Theatre building in Washington, USA
description: bouwwerk in Washington D.C. @nl
EUTA building identifier: 5711
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: USA
City: Washington
Wikidata source: Q1416812
GPS: Point(-77.0258 38.8967)
opening date: 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z
Capacity: 665
Web: www.fords.org
architectural style: Georgian architecture
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 4310
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Opened August 1863 as Ford's Theatre. Named after its owner and manager, John T. Ford (1829-1894). Site of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on 14 Apr 1865, by the actor and slavery advocate, John Wilkes Booth, during a performance of Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin. Lincoln was transported to the nearby Petersen House where he died the following day. The theatre building was seized by the U. S. government (and Ford was paid $88,000 for it). Later it was used as a warehouse and office building. 1893 partly collapsed. Renovated and re-opened as a theater in 1968. Renovations in the 2000s, re-opened 21 Feb 2009. 665 seats.