Karamu House

	Karamu House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Karamu House
Location	Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Coordinates	41°29′38″N 81°37′27″W
Built	-1915 (as Settlement House); -1941 (renamed as Karamu House)
Architectural style	Moderne
Website	karamuhouse.org
MPS	Black History TR
NRHP reference No.	82001368
Added to NRHP	December 17, 1982

Karamu House in the Fairfax neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is the oldest African-American theater in the United States opening in 1915. Many of Langston Hughes's plays were developed and premièred at the theater.

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