Established over six decades ago, Telligent Masonry is a mason construction company offering various masonry construction and restoration services for stone veneer, cast stone, brick, and concrete masonry units to its wide range of clients that includes hotels and government agencies. Telligent Masonry has won many awards for craftsmanship and construction excellence over the years. The company supports the local community by supporting organizations such as the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
Atlas Performing Arts Center is a community-based performing arts venue that promotes dance, spoken word, music, film, and theater. The theater was built in 1938 on the H Street Corridor, one of the first four Washington, DC, movie theaters at the time and a favorite place for film lovers of all types in the captial city. Thirty years later, during the riots that occurred after Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination, the Atlas suffered destruction along with other properties.
The Atlas stood in ruin for 33 years from 1968-2001, with only its sign visible. However, in 2001, a lawyer and philanthropist, Jane Lang, initiated a renovation idea for the Atlas and other neighboring properties: convert the theater along with other storefronts nearby into a community-based performing arts center. The Washington, DC government fully adopted Lang's idea, and in 2003 made a plan to rebuild the H Street and NE Corridors and the theater.
Finally, in 2006 the Atlas performing arts center was re-opened, this time as a 59,000-square-foot arts center. It houses dance studios, a cafe, an expansive lobby, four performance spaces, offices, and back-of-house facilities. On the National Register of Historic Places, the center received the Mayor's Arts Award for Service to Art and Excellence in 2012.
Atlas Performing Arts Center is a community-based performing arts venue that promotes dance, spoken word, music, film, and theater. The theater was built in 1938 on the H Street Corridor, one of the first four Washington, DC, movie theaters at the time and a favorite place for film lovers of all types in the captial city. Thirty years later, during the riots that occurred after Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination, the Atlas suffered destruction along with other properties.
The Atlas stood in ruin for 33 years from 1968-2001, with only its sign visible. However, in 2001, a lawyer and philanthropist, Jane Lang, initiated a renovation idea for the Atlas and other neighboring properties: convert the theater along with other storefronts nearby into a community-based performing arts center. The Washington, DC government fully adopted Lang's idea, and in 2003 made a plan to rebuild the H Street and NE Corridors and the theater.
Finally, in 2006 the Atlas performing arts center was re-opened, this time as a 59,000-square-foot arts center. It houses dance studios, a cafe, an expansive lobby, four performance spaces, offices, and back-of-house facilities. On the National Register of Historic Places, the center received the Mayor's Arts Award for Service to Art and Excellence in 2012.
