Moore Theatre and Hotel Building
- Architect
- Edwin Walker Houghton
- Year
- 1907
- City
- Seattle, WA
The Moore Theatre opened in late 1907 at 2nd Avenue and Virginia Street, built for Seattle real estate developer James A. Moore and designed by E. W. Houghton as a lavish social venue for the city's Gilded Age elite. It and the adjoining Moore Hotel were timed to greet tourists for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, originally planned for 1907 before being postponed to 1909, and the 1,800-seat theater remains Seattle's oldest active theater today.
the building
Built for a fair that slipped. Moore built the theater and its adjoining hotel to accommodate and entertain tourists for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, opening in time for the fair's original 1907 date even though the event itself was postponed to 1909.
First stage manager. The theater's first operator, John Cort, later went on to found a major Broadway theatre venue in New York.
significance
The theater and hotel building is a Seattle City Landmark (#102), individually designated on October 16, 1989, and also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It remains Seattle's oldest active theater, now operated by the Seattle Theatre Group alongside the 2,803-seat Paramount Theatre and the Neptune Theatre.
nearby
- Calhoun Hotel
- Josephinum/New Washington Hotel
- Butterworth Building
- J.S. Graham Store/Doyle Building
- Times Square Building
- Medical Dental Building