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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

The Forbidden City has a branch office in downtown Seattle. The 5th Avenue Theatre, opened in September 1926 inside the Skinner Building at 1308 5th Avenue, has been called the largest and most authentic example of traditional Chinese timber architecture and decoration outside Asia: architect Robert C. Reamer and Norwegian-born designer Gustav Liljestrom modelled the interior on the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heavenly Peace and the Summer Palace, working from Ernst Boerschmann's illustrated C...