DAR Constitution Hall

DAR Constitution Hall is a concert hall in Washington, D.C. It was built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to house its annual convention when membership delegations outgrew Memorial Continental Hall. Later, the two buildings were connected by a third structure housing the DAR Museum and administrative offices. DAR Constitution Hall is still owned and operated by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution.

The hall was designed by architect John Russell Pope and is located at 1776 D St. NW, just east of the Department of the Interior, between the American Red Cross and the Organization of American States, across from the Ellipse in front of the White House. The hall seats 3,702 people, with 2,208 in the tiers and 1,234 on the orchestra level. Additionally, 52 boxes (containing 5 seats each) separate the orchestra from the tiers.

In an often-mistold historical incident, the Hall's management once told distinguished African-American singer Marian Anderson her requested performance date for the Hall was already booked by another event (the National Symphony Orchestra), causing first lady Eleanor Roosevelt instead to offer her a spot to sing at the Lincoln Memorial. Anderson performed at the Hall for an American Red Cross war relief benefit in 1943, and also chose it as the first venue of her farewell tour in 1964. It is often retold that she was denied permission to sing there due to her race; a fallacy as the choir from Hampton Institute, a black college in Hampton, Virginia, and a black male tenor, Roland Hayes, had performed there in the 1930's.

Every U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge has attended at least one event at the theater.