1213 U Street, NW
— African American Heritage Trail, Washington, DC —
Ben's Chili Bowl, founded in 1958 by Ben and Virginia Ali, is one of the oldest continuous businesses on U Street. It is also one of the few to survive both the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and the years of the disruptive Metro construction in the late 1980s. Thanks in part to the patronage of entertainer Bill Cosby, Ben's has become a national landmark. The restaurant occupies the former Minnehaha Theater, a 1910 movie house owned and operated from 1913 to 1920 by Sherman H. Dudley, once a leading vaudeville performer and entrepreneur.| HM Number | HMDEA |
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| Series | This marker is part of the Washington, D.C.: African American Heritage Trail series |
| Tags | |
| Placed By | Cultural Tourism DC - Funded by the DC Historic Preservation Office |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Monday, September 1st, 2014 at 4:40pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 324110 N 4309535 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 38.91711667, -77.02880000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 55.027', W 77° 1.728' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 55' 1.62" N, 77° 1' 43.68" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 202 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1213 U St NW, Washington DC 20009, US |
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