Ford's Theatre: Images of America

Independent shop in Phinney Ridge

Available from Zoo Store when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

By Brian Anderson and Ford's Theatre Society. Ford's Theatre in downtown Washington, DC, is best known as the notorious scene of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865. It is among the oldest and most visited sites of national tragedy in the United States. First constructed in 1833 as a Baptist church, the property was acquired by John T. Ford and converted into a theater in 1861. Presenting almost 500 performances before the assassination, Ford afterward sold the building t