Nippon Kan Theatre
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| Nippon Kan | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Seattle, WA |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1909 |
| Architect: | Thompson & Thompson |
| Added to NRHP: | May 22, 1978 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 78002754 [1] |
| Governing body: | Private |
The Nippon Kan Theatre is a former Japanese theater in Seattle, Washington, USA. Built in 1909, 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 converted into a messenger office. Its closure has been attributed to the decreasing number of people of Japanese descent in Seattle.[2]
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
[edit] Notes
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- ^ "Seattle loses icon of Japanese heritage" by Cecilia Kang, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 26, 2005, retrieved March 28, 2006.
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