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Dream Theatre  
Address 1st Avenue and Cherry Street
Opening Night Seating Capacity 250
Original Theatre Owner James Q. Clemmer
Original Theatre Architect unknown
Years of Operation Opened 1908
Operated 1908 through circa 1925
Type of Musical Accompaniment Estey theatre pipe organ, and piano
Current Status unknown

The Dream Theatre was built by James Q. Clemmer, who became the manager of his father’s Kenneth Hotel in the Pioneer Square district of downtown Seattle in 1908. For $6000, Clemmer remodeled space in the hotel’s ground floor, formerly a bank lobby, to establish his first motion picture theatre, the Dream Theatre. Clemmer is thought by some to be the first exhibitor to install a pipe organ in a U.S. theater specifically to accompany motion pictures. The Estey pipe organ was installed in the Dream in 1908. The original Dream organist was Oliver G. Wallace, who went on to be the premiere organist at Clemmer’s Clemmer Theatre in 1912.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 590 : Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society website.

 

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