Carver Theatre
2405 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE,
Washington,
DC
20020
2405 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE,
Washington,
DC
20020
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This movie house, located in the Anacostia area of Washington, stood on Nichols Street (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue) near Talbert Street. It opened in July 1948 with Rod Cameron in “Panhandle”. The Carver Theatre was designed in Streamline Moderne style by local architect John J. Zink, best known for his Senator Theatre in Baltimore, and the Uptown Theatre in Washington.
The Carver Theatre was closed on 1957 and converted into an ice-skating rink. Later the Carver Theatre became the first home of the Anacasotia Neighborhood Museum in 1967 featuring African-American history. It remained housed there until the museum moved to its current location on Fort Place in 1987.
By 2006 the theatre had been demolished, apart from the facade which was altered. It was rebuilt, and in 2011 the Howard Road Academy Public Charter School occupied the building. By 2014 it was named Community College Preparatory Academy. By 2024 it was in use by the Metropolitan Police Cadet Department
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Here and here are photos from January 2008 of the former Carver Theatre which will soon to be the home for the Good Samaritan Foundation.
thanks to Jack Coursey for this link,
http://www.gsf-dc.org/about_outreach.html
with an etching of what may be the former Carver Theatre and soon to be Good Samaritan Foundation.
The building appears to be part of the DC Metropolitan Police Cadet Academy training program.