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, and the second Arctic Club building was constructed at the site in 1916-1917; it remains standing as of 2018.
Shown here is the Seattle Theatre program for the production of "Dora Thorne," a dramatization of the novel by Bertha M. Clay (the pseudonym for Charlotte M. Brame), for its one-week run beginning November 4, 1906. According to the Seattle Times, it entertained two packed houses on opening day, with Maud Brandon in the title role, and George Gordon, in a "virile impersonation," portraying her lover.
Caption information source: Pacific Coast Architecture database at http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/6381/
Physical Description: 1 program (4 pp.) ; 6.25 x 9.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Credit: MOHAI, Collection of Theater Programs, 2010.3.26.9.31.1
