Southern Aid Society Building/Dunbar Theater, Interior of the theater from north, August 1986
This file appears in: Southern Aid Society Building (Dunbar Theater): This mixed-use building once served as a life insurance company and a cinema.
Credit: Betty Bird, D.C. Historic Preservation Office
This file appears in: Southern Aid Society Building (Dunbar Theater): This mixed-use building once served as a life insurance company and a cinema.
Southern Aid Society Building (Dunbar Theater): This mixed-use building once served as a life insurance company and a cinema.
While Black architect Isaiah T. Hatton (1883-1921) designed the building in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, Reginald W. Geare (1889-1927) designed the movie theater on the first floor of the…