Skinner Building / 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, Washington) | office building, high-rise, historical building

USA / Washington / Seattle / Seattle, Washington / 5th Avenue, 1308
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The Skinner Building is a Renaissance Revival-styled office building in Downtown Seattle, Washington, which also houses the 5th Avenue Theatre. The building has 8 floors and a height of 117 ft (36 m). Named after David Skinner and designed by Robert Reamer, it cost $1,500,000 to construct from October 1925 to September 1926. With 216,000 sq ft (20,000 sq m) of office space, it is LEED Gold certified. There are also retail shops on the ground level. The building suffered minimal damage in the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake and received a seismic upgrade until 2004.

Upon its opening, the 5th Avenue Theatre was a venue for vaudeville and film, and after the decline of vaudeville, it continued as a movie palace until the 1970s. The theatre closed in 1978 after years of decline and was then renovated from 1979 to 1980 and reopened. It is the home of the 5th Avenue Theatre Association (formed in 1979), and its subscriber season programming includes 7 shows per year. A new marquee (similar to the one that existed from 1926 to 1980) was installed in 2009. The theatre has a seating capacity of 2,130. It also features a decorative Chinese-style interior.

The Skinner Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1978.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Avenue_Theatre
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Coordinates:   47°36'33"N   122°20'1"W

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