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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

Frank Sinatra played his last Washington show at the reopening gala of a theater the wrecking ball nearly took. The Warner Theatre, at 513 13th Street NW in downtown Washington, opened on December 27, 1924 as the Earle - a velvet-draped picture palace the Washington Post called a pleasure to enter and a regret to leave. Architects C. Howard Crane and Kenneth Franzheim built an entertainment machine: a 2,200-plus-seat vaudeville and silent-film house with a rooftop garden theater, a 1,000-person...