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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Management boasted the house could be emptied in two minutes if fire broke out - a Titanic-grade claim, mercifully never tested in more than a century. The Moore Theatre, at 1932 2nd Avenue at Virginia Street, opened on 28 December 1907 and is the oldest operating theatre in Seattle. The origin is Gilded Age ambition: developer James A. Moore built the theatre and its adjoining hotel to catch visitors bound for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, hiring architect E. W. Houghton for a house who...