Taproot Theatre
140 N. 85th Street,
Seattle,
WA
98103
140 N. 85th Street,
Seattle,
WA
98103
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The Taproot Theatre is open, but does not appear to be showing movies. Their web site lists only stage productions. In October, 2009, a fire destroyed an adjacent building owned by the theater company, and partly burned the roof of the theater itself, leading to extensive smoke and water damage. The theater reopened within a few months. The site of the destroyed building is now being developed with an annex that will include a cafe, an expanded lobby for the theater, and a small black box theater, among other facilities.
An article in the September 29, 1909, issue of the Seattle Star said that the Grand was one of the Seattle theaters that had been designed by architect E. W. Houghton. It mentioned two others, one being the Moore, but the scan of the paper is bad and the name of the third Houghton-designed house is almost unreadable, but it was probably the Majestic, which appears in the theater listings of that same issue of the paper.
Here is the Taproot Theater website:
http://www.taproottheatre.org/
This website has a circa 1936 photo of the Grand Theater.
The current total of seats at Taproot is 228. Renovation and conversion to live theater cut the number of seats.
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1950 lists the seating capacity of the Grand Theatre as 468.
Formerly known as the Greenwood Grand, this theater is now the home to the Taproot Theatre Company.