PCAD - Turner's Hall #2, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

AKA: Seattle Turn Verein, Gymnasium #2, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA; Seattle Opera House, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - theatres; built works - public buildings - assembly halls

Jefferson Street
Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA 98104

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The Seattle Turner's Hall #2 occupied the southwest corner of Jefferson Street and 4th Avenues

Turner's Hall #2 was the only building capable of holding theatrical performances following the Great Fire of 06/06/1889. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said in 1907: "After the fire of 1889 there was only one building in Seattle that could be used temporarily as a theater. That was old Turner Hall located on Jefferson between Third and Fourth just above City Hall." (See Howard Grant, Story of Seattle's Early Theatres, [Seattle: University Book Store, 1934], p. 34.) This second Turner's Hall operated from 1886-1890, then becoming the Seattle Opera House from 1890-1893. The Seattle Turn Verein reoccupied it from 1893-1897, when it became the Jefferson Theatre from 1897-1899. (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.)

PCAD id: 18472

Turner's Hall #2, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA (1886)