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The Seattle Center is an entertainment, education, tourism and performing arts center located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Constructed for the 1962 World's Fair , the Seattle Center's landmark feature is the 605 ft (184 m) Space Needle , an official city landmark and globally recognized symbol of ...
The structure under construction in 1961. The arena opened in 1962 as the Washington State Pavilion for the Century 21 Exposition, the work of architect Paul Thiry.After the close of the Exposition, the Pavilion was purchased by the city of Seattle for $2.9 million and underwent an 18-month conversion into the Washington State Coliseum, one of the centerpieces of the new Seattle Center on the ...
Among his surviving buildings in Seattle are the KeyArena (1958–1962, originally the Seattle Center Coliseum, interior much altered), the Northeast Library (1954, later expanded), and St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (1964–1968). [32] [33] University Unitarian Church (Paul Hayden Kirk, 1955–1959)
The Coliseum continued as a first-run theater into the late 1970s, [5] and continued to show films until 1990. [3] It closed on March 11, 1990, after showing the film Tremors ; [ 6 ] the building was renovated into a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2 ) Banana Republic clothing store that opened in 1994. [ 7 ]
The name changed to Seattle Center Arena after the Century 21 Exposition (1962 World's Fair). In 1995 the name changed again, to the Mercer Arena, due to its location on Mercer Street and to avoid confusion with the Seattle Center Coliseum's new name, KeyArena. Its large, flexible spaces allowed an average of 183 events each year.
Location of Seattle in King County and Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
Here, the Bubbleator rises to the upper floor of the Washington State Coliseum, now Climate Pledge Arena. The Bubbleator was a large, bubble-shaped hydraulic elevator with transparent acrylic glass walls operated from an elevated chair built for the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle. These transparent walls gave the illusion of looking through an ...
The SuperSonics, having previously played at the Seattle Center Coliseum, announced on July 29, 1977, that they intended to move into the Kingdome for the 1978–79 season after the expiration of their contract with the city of Seattle, the owner of the Coliseum; the team pushed for a move to the Kingdome after the city balked at a $30 million ...