If you’re a movie buff and haven’t seen a flick at the Uptown Theater located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Washington DC, then you’re missing a fun time. Arguably the most historic theater in Washington, most movie critics consider the Uptown as the best place in the city to see a movie. John J. Zink designed the famous theater along with another 200 theaters located in cities across the US. You can’t miss the theater located on Connecticut Ave NW just north of Washington’s National Zoo. An interesting piece of real estate, the Uptown bears a small resemblance to the famous Biograph Theater where the infamous John Dillinger was gunned down by FBI agents in the 1930’s. Opened in October of 1936, Cleveland Park’s Uptown Theater is truly one of Washington DC’s historical gems. The Uptown has hosted many world premieres including: Star Trek The Motion Picture, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Guardian, Dances with Wolves, and Lions for Lambs.
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Uptown Theater 3426 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Washington DC’s Historic Cleveland Park
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009While I was walking around Washington DC’s Cleveland Park neighborhood the other day my curiosity got the best of me. I couldn’t help but think that there must be some truly interesting history surrounding one of Northwest Washington DC’s prettiest and oldest established neighborhoods. Searching the web I found quite a few interesting facts about Cleveland Park including:
The neighborhood was named after former US President Grover Cleveland in 1886 shortly after he purchased a summer home in the neighborhood that is now named in his honor. As a matter of fact most of the homes located in the area during the period of Cleveland’s residency were summer retreats. In the early 1890’s when streetcars begin transporting residents from Cleveland Park to downtown Washington DC, the neighborhood earned another interesting nickname that became synonymous with similar neighborhoods around the country “streetcar suburbs”.
Today the neighborhood boosts a bevy of popular architectural styles of the time, notably the Queen Anne style (including the Shingle style), Georgian revival, and the Mission Revival. In later years, simpler schools such as the Prairie style and Tudor revival came to dominate the neighborhood.
If you have any interesting notes or historic facts about Cleveland Park or any of my other post, please take a moment to share with my readers, I’m sure they would appreciate it!
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