Ford's Theatre is a theatre located at 511 10th Street NW in Washington DC. Originally the site of the First Baptist Church, opened in 1833, the building was converted into a theatre in 1861 after the congregation moved to a newer structure and John T. Ford opened Ford's Athenaeum. The theatre burned down in 1862 and was reopened in August 1863. On 14 April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, attended a performance of the British play Our American Cousin at the theatre, only for Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth to make his way into the presidential booth and shoot Lincoln in the back of the head before jumping down to the stage and escaping through a rear door. Lincoln died at the neighboring Petersen House the following morning. The United States government appropriated the theatre from Ford for $88,000 and forever prohibited its use as a place of public amusement; it served as a War Department records building from 1866 to 1887, a clerk's office for the Record and Pension Office of the War Department from 1887 to 1928 (experiencing a 9 June 1893 pillar collapse that killed 22 clerks and injured 68), and as a Lincoln museum from 12 February 1932. The theatre was restored from 1964 to 1968, with Vice President Hubert Humphrey dedicating the restored theatre on 21 January 1968.