Paramount Theatre Seattle

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The Paramount opened on March 1, 1928, at the corner of Pine Street and Ninth Avenue in downtown Seattle. It was originally called the Seattle Theatre and renamed the Paramount the following year. The building was designed by Scottish-born theatre architect Marcus Priteca.

The architect was Marcus Priteca, who designed more than two hundred Pantages and Paramount houses across North America between 1910 and 1958. The Paramount's interior is in a French Renaissance Beaux-Arts vocabulary, with a coffered ceiling, ornamental plasterwork, gilt, and crystal. The interior survives largely intact from the 1928 opening.

The auditorium seats 2,807. It is the largest historic theatre in downtown Seattle and one of the largest pre-war movie palaces still in regular operation in the United States. The four-manual Wurlitzer pipe organ at the front of the house is original to the 1928 opening.

The Seattle Theatre Group, a nonprofit that also operates the Moore Theatre and the Neptune Theatre. Seattle Theatre Group took control of the Paramount after a restoration funded largely by former Microsoft executive Ida Cole, with the building reopening to full operation in 1995.

Touring Broadway productions, major concerts, comedy tours, and Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker in some seasons. The Paramount runs roughly two hundred performances a year. It does not show first-run film. Tickets are sold through Seattle Theatre Group on the STG Presents website.

Yes. The Paramount was added to the National Register in 1974 and designated a Seattle Landmark by the city in 1976. Both designations protect the original 1928 interior. The Wurlitzer organ is recognised as a historic instrument and is maintained by the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society.

It carries well for someone with a long Seattle connection or who has caught Broadway or a Nutcracker performance at the Paramount. The room holds a particular place in local memory. A Small or Medium with a handwritten card from the studio reads as a real gift rather than a generic Seattle skyline print.

Maximalist and traditional interiors with deep colour, brass, and velvet read it cleanly. It also sits well in Art Deco and old-Hollywood-inspired rooms, and in jewel-tone maximalist walls where the stained-glass linework becomes a focal piece. Stark minimalist interiors tend to clash with the ornamental subject.

Yes. The grandmillennial direction leans toward ornamental architecture, historic detail, and artwork that references a specific place. A piece of a 1928 French Renaissance interior in stained-glass linework sits inside that direction. The Large or a 4-tile Mural reads as a focal piece in a living room or above a piano.

Above a standard sofa the single Large reads as a focal piece. A 4-tile Mural draws the gilt detail across a wider wall, and a 9-tile Mural is the right scale for stairwells, music rooms, and high-ceilinged great rooms. A Medium suits a console; a Small suits a desk or a narrow shelf.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are soft-sheen, scratch-resistant, and rated for vertical installation in showers, kitchen backsplashes, and powder rooms. The Glossy finish is reserved for framed wall pieces in dry rooms.

A soft microfibre cloth with plain water is enough for everyday dust. For a kitchen or bath installation, a damp cloth with a drop of mild dish soap is safe on the Dura Satin and Matte finishes. No abrasive pads, no scouring powders, no bleach.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original work from the studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, with Reid Wender as the curating eye. The art is not licensed from stock libraries and is not produced by other studios under our name.