James Clemmer and his wife moved to Seattle from Spokane in 1907 and took on the management of his family’s Kenneth Hotel. He soon converted the first floor into the Dream Theater, one of Seattle’s first movie houses. Over the years, Clemmer managed many other Seattle theaters.
In 1909, the Clemmers built a Mission Revival home at 2612 Harvard Avenue East, at the north end of Seattle’s Capitol Hill. This image shows the home’s front porch, with its heavy stucco arches and its wicker furniture.
See SHS9521 online for another view of the house. SHS category: Homes - Interior
Caption information source: Caroline Swope, Classic Houses of Seattle: High Style to Vernacular, 1870-1950., Timber Press (Portland, OR, 2005), p. 193.
ID Number: SHS5603
Date: Circa 1909
Physical Description: 1 photographic print on cardboard mount: b&w ; 7.5 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.
