File:Mezzanine floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915 (MOHAI 13253).jpg
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[edit]English: Mezzanine floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915
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creator QS:P170,Q4834112 |
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English: Mezzanine floor plan, Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1915 |
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English: By 1915, Seattle's downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca, and the elegant venue opened on January 8, 1916. In addition to the shows, features included a large smoking room for men, large restrooms for women, a children's playroom, caged songbirds, and lavish floral arrangements. Managed at first by The Greater Theatres Company, the theater remained Seattle's premier movie house into the 1980s, when it lost out to suburban multiplexes. The Coliseum closed in 1990 but was reborn as a Banana Republic store in 1994 with some of its original elegance still intact. This detailed architectural drawing is a floor plan for the Mezzanine at the Coliseum Theater. In addition to restrooms, stairways and the projection booth, it includes the Grand Lounge, Ladies' Retiring Room and a nursery, plus a view of the cupola over the front entrance (lower left). It is Sheet 8 in a set of architectural drawings done on a scale of 1/4 inch to one foot.Handwritten on plan: Signatures representing the project principals: C.D. Stimson Company, Coliseum Company, and Pearson Construction Company. Caption information source: Seattle Daily Times, March 7, 1915, p. 1; May 9, 1915, p. 5; and January 2, 1916, p. 24. Caption information source: HistoryLink.org Essay 2538.
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English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
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1915 date QS:P571,+1915-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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English: 1 architectural drawing: color |
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height: 45 in (114.3 cm); width: 40 in (101.6 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,45U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,40U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | MOHAI, Architectural drawings of the Coliseum Theater, 2011.36.1.11 |
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