H Street Playhouse
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The H Street Playhouse, formerly known as the Plymouth Theatre and Mott Motors, located at 1365 H Street, NE in the Near Northeast neighborhood of Washington, DC. Designed by the architectural firm Upman & Adams in 1928, the Romanesque building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This file appears in: Mott Motors (Plymouth Theater): Built as a car dealership in the 1920s, this building later became a theater for Black moviegoers during segregation.
Mott Motors (Plymouth Theater): Built as a car dealership in the 1920s, this building later became a theater for Black moviegoers during segregation.
Built in 1928, the one-story commercial Mott Motors building typifies the small automobile dealerships that fostered the transformation of traditional retail streets into automobile-oriented shopping…