AKA: Cort's Third Standard Theatre, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - theatres

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1889, demolished 1889

1 story

Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

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John Cort's Second Standard Theatre in Seattle, WA, burned in the Great Seattle Fire of 06/06/1889. Cort's Third Standard Theatre, located in a tent, opened 18 days later, on 06/24/1889. The Seattle Daily Press reported on that day: "John Cort has erected a large tent on Front Street between Madison and Spring, and will open it as the Standard Theatre Monday." (See Howard Grant, Story of Seattle's Early Theatres, [Seattle: University Book Store, 1934], p. 34.) This temporary facility hosted shows for about five months before Cort could open John Cort's New Standard Theatre (1889), his fourth using the "Standard" name.

Demolished.

PCAD id: 18439