The Circle Theatre on the 1900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C. was designed by Albert B. Mullett & Co. and opened in March 1910. It had previously been a store in a three-story Federal style building.[1]
Believed to be the District’s first continuously operating movie theatre, it was the first to feature repertory films.[2]
History
editThe Circle Theatre opened in 1910, and was renovated and enlarged in 1935 in the Art Deco style.[3] In the 1970s and 1980s, it was a 670-seat revival house theatre. From 1968 to 1986, the adjacent Inner Circle Theater ran mostly first-run art and foreign films. The theatre closed in September 1986 and was demolished.[1] Brothers Ted and Jim Pedas owned the theatre since 1957.[2] By 1980, their Circle Theatres chain had 36 screens in Washington, D.C.[4] and its suburbs.
References
edit- ^ a b "Circle Theatre". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ a b Yorke, Jeffrey (September 16, 1986). "Circle Theatre Closes". The Washington Post. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ "Circle Theatre".
- ^ "The New Moguls".
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