Nippon Kan Theatre (Seattle, Wash.)
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q7039629
Library of congress:
sh2017004091
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Nippon Kan Theatre photograph, moving image, and ephemera collection, approximately 1900-1989(Nippon Kan Theatre; located at 622-628 Washington Street in Seattle, Washington, was designed by the architecture firm of Thompson and Thompson and was constructed in 1909; sometimes referred to as Nippon Kan Hall)
- Wikipedia, July 18, 2017(Nippon Kan Theatre (日本館劇場 = Nihon-kan Gekijō; Nippon-kan Gekijō [in roman]) is a former Japanese theater in Seattle, Washington, United States. Built in 1909 as a hotel, it was boarded up in 1942 during the Japanese American internment, but reopened in 1981; it is located in the Kobe Park Building at 628 S. Washington Street, in the former Japantown section of Seattle's International District. In 2005 it was sold to ABC Legal Services and was used as converted office space; listed on the National Register of Historic Places)
- Early history of theatre in Seattle, July 18, 2017(Primary name: Nippon Kan Theatre; Alternate name: Nippon Kan; Address: 628 South Washington Street, Seattle WA 98104; opened in 1909 at 622 South Washington Street (what is now 628 S. Washington St.))
- Historylink.org, July 18, 2017(In 1909, the Nippon Kan (Japanese Hall) Theater opens on S Washington Street in Seattle's International District; serves as the cultural center of Seattle's Japanese community)
- Kang, C. Seattle loses icon of Japanese heritage, in Seattle post-intelligencer, Nov. 25, 2005, viewed online July 18, 2017(Nippon Kan Theatre, in the Kobe Park Building at 628 S. Washington St., is a national historic landmark; built in 1909; Earlier this year, the Nippon Kan Theatre was sold to ABC Legal Service; now a messenger office)
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Wikipedia description:
The Nippon Kan Theatre (日本館劇場, Nippon-kan Gekijō) is a former Japanese theater in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is located in the Kobe Park Building at 628 S. Washington Street, in the Japantown section of Seattle's International District.
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