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This building, known as the Orpheum, operated before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. It served multiple purposes, only occasionally as a theatre. It was the first "Orpheum" building listed in Appendix I of Eugene Clinton Elliott's A History of Variety-Vaudeville in Seattle from the Beginning to 1914, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1944, p. 66).

Building Notes

According to E.C. Elliott, A History of Variety-Vaudeville in Seattle from the Beginning to 1914, there were five separate theatres that had the name "Orpheum" before 1914. (See Eugene Clinton Elliott, A History of Variety-Vaudeville in Seattle from the Beginning to 1914, Appendix I, [Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1944], p.66-67.) While the Orpheum Theatre #5 at 919 3rd Avenue (designed by William Kingsley) was also operating, Polk's Seattle City Directories between 1918-1920 also listed the former Moore Theatre at 1934 2nd Avenue as the "Orpheum Theatre." (The Moore/Orpheum became the sixth theatre to have the Orpheum name.) Between 1885-1927, the name "Orpheum" was applied to a total of seven different theatrical venues in Seattle. The seventh was a design by B. Marcus Priteca (1889-1971) was located at 505 Stewart Street, erected in 1926-1927.

PCAD id: 18217