Front facade and Marquee of former MacArthur Theater

ID: 5662 ~ Source: Image taken by Zachary Burt ~ Date: June 2019

This file appears in: MacArthur Theater: This theater, located in the Palisades neighborhood in northwest DC, was built in 1945 and opened the next year.

Photo Courtesy of DC Preservation League

This file appears in: MacArthur Theater: This theater, located in the Palisades neighborhood in northwest DC, was built in 1945 and opened the next year.

MacArthur Theater: This theater, located in the Palisades neighborhood in northwest DC, was built in 1945 and opened the next year.

By The DC Historic Sites team

The MacArthur Theater is a large neighborhood movie house, characteristic of the theaters that were once prominent in the city's outlying commercial centers. Such places of popular entertainment,…