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Image of Grand Opera House program, 1907
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Grand Opera House program, 1907

The Grand Opera House, designed by Seattle architect Edwin W. Houghton, opened at 213-217 Cherry Street in 1900. Owned by theater impresario John Cort, The Grand Opera House included a basement beer and variety hall in addition to the 2,278-seat theater. The building survived a fire in 1906, but was already suffering the effects of competition from opening of the…
ID Number:2010.3.26.5.8.1
Date:1907
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Program for "Dora Thorne" at the Seattle Theatre, November1906

The Seattle Theatre, designed by architects George Willis Lawton and Charles Willard Saunders, opened at the corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street on December 5, 1892. The building included an auditorium that housed the theater, as well as a three-story office space. The Seattle Theater operated at that location through May 1915. The building was demolished that same year,…
ID Number:2010.3.26.9.31.1
Date:1906
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Program for "The Russian Slave" at Yesler's Hall, November 1883

This program for the play "The Russian Slave" gives the drama's cast of characters and synopsis, and indicates that the performance was a "Complimentary Benefit" from two of the actors to the Seattle Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1, part of Seattle's volunteer fire department. The show was held at Yesler's Hall, a two-story meeting hall built in 1861 by…
ID Number:2010.3.26.9.37.1
Date:1883
Image of Auditorium floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915
Architectural drawing

Auditorium floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915

By 1915, Seattle’s downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C.D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Streets to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and…
ID Number:2011.36.1.1
Date:1915
Image of Auditorium floor plan, supplementary version, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915
Architectural drawing

Auditorium floor plan, supplementary version, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915

By 1915, Seattle’s downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C.D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Streets to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and…
ID Number:2011.36.1.2
Date:1915
Image of Balcony floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915
Architectural drawing

Balcony floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915

By 1915, Seattle’s downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C.D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Streets to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and…
ID Number:2011.36.1.3
Date:1915
Image of Balcony floor plan, supplementary version, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915
Architectural drawing

Balcony floor plan, supplementary version, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915

By 1915, Seattle’s downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C.D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Streets to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and…
ID Number:2011.36.1.4
Date:1915
Image of Basement floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915
Architectural drawing

Basement floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915

By 1915, Seattle’s downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C.D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Streets to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and…
ID Number:2011.36.1.5
Date:1915
Image of Alley elevation drawing, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915
Architectural drawing

Alley elevation drawing, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915

By 1915, Seattle’s downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C.D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Streets to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and…
ID Number:2011.36.1.6
Date:1915
Image of Footing plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915
Architectural drawing

Footing plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915

By 1915, Seattle’s downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C.D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Streets to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and…
ID Number:2011.36.1.7
Date:1915
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