Grand Opera House (Seattle)

Cort himself was one of the reasons for this, when he made Seattle's Moore Theatre, also designed by Houghton, his flagship house after its December 28, 1907 opening.

Nearby at Third Avenue and Cherry Street, John Considine, a veteran of box house days and a pioneer of vaudeville had his highly successful Seattle Theater.

[4] Cort had the basement level of the Grand built in 1898 and opened it as a variety and beer hall known as the Palm Gardens.

The St. Charles/Rector Hotel was constructed next door on Third Avenue in 1912–13; it was originally interconnected to the opera house at the balcony level.

[5] The theater caught fire early on the morning of Saturday, January 20, 1917, due to defective wiring under the floor of the balcony.

At about 7 a.m., the domed theater roof caved in, killing fire department Battalion Chief Frederick G. Gilham and seriously injuring nine other firefighters, five of them seriously.

"[9]) Levy had boasted in an advertisement about having a role in getting Ober removed, and other city officials may have felt intimidated by that; on the other hand, Fire Chief Frank L. Stetson asserted that the Grand had appeared no more dangerous than "other buildings of its type" and that the changes to the building that Ober had wanted had, indeed, ultimately occurred.

[8] The city council committee investigating the matter did not ultimately conclude that either Levy or Cotterill had done anything wrong.

"[1] Construction began March 24, 1923 on a parking garage described at the time as "the first of its kind in the Northwest" with "[p]atented ramps".

[12] The building is a 5-story brick masonry structure in Richardsonian Romanesque style, not counting a foundation and basement.

The theater interior is entirely destroyed, and the façade is much altered, but some original exterior features remain under white paint.