Le Ford's Theatre National Historic Site est une aire protégée américaine située à Washington, la capitale du pays. Créé en 1965 et inscrit au Registre national des lieux historiques le 15 octobre 1966, ce site historique national protège le théâtre Ford et la Petersen House qui lui fait face, lieux-clés de l'assassinat d'Abraham Lincoln en avril 1865.
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Ford's Theatre is a theater in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863. In 1865, it was the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. The theater was later used as a warehouse and government office building. In 1893, part of its interior flooring collapsed, causing 22 deaths, and needed repairs were made. The building became a museum in 1932, and it was renovated and re-opened as a theater in 1968. A related Center for Education and Leadership museum opened in 2012, next to Petersen House.
The Petersen House and the theater are preserved together as Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service. Programming within the theater and the Center for Education is overseen separately by the Ford's Theatre Society.
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The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house in the United States in Washington, D.C., located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the White House. It is known for being the house where President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre located across the street.
The house was built in 1849 by William A. Petersen, a German tailor. Future vice-president John C. Breckinridge, a friend of the Lincoln family, rented this house in 1852. It served as a boarding house in 1865 and has been a museum since the 1930s, currently administered by the National Park Service.
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Rania is a restaurant in Penn Quarter, Washington, D.C., in the United States. The restaurant serves Indian cuisine and has received a Michelin star.
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Madame Tussauds Washington D.C. was a wax museum located in Washington D.C.. The attraction opened in October 2007 and became the 12th Madame Tussauds venue worldwide, and featured wax sculptures of famous figures from politics, culture, sports, music and television. In comparison to other Madame Tussauds venues, the venue features more waxworks of political figures, with sculptures of all 45 U.S. presidents displayed.
The wax museum was a block away from Ford's Theatre. It was the first wax museum in Washington D.C. in 25 years, following the closure of the wax museum on Fourth and E streets in 1982.
The museum closed after March 17, 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure was announced as temporary, but the museum never reopened. In July 2021, the museum operator was seeking to sublease the entire space of the former museum to outside parties.
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The Columbia Theatre, located at 1112 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States, was a theater built and opened in 1891, closed and demolished in 1959. The Arnold & Porter Building is on the site today.