{{Short description|American theater manager}} {{use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2020}}
'''James Clemmer''' (died 1942) was a vaudeville and movie theater manager at the film industry's start in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.<ref name="musical house"/> His home, the Clemmer house (1909), is a Spanish Mission style residence, also referred to as a "hybrid Mission Revival", that was later converted to a bed and breakfast hotel.<ref name="musical house"/>
Clemmer managed the Fifth Avenue theater (1925-1926) (designed by Robert C. Reamer), the Winter Garden, the Music Box (1928-1930) (designed by Henry W. Bittman), various Blue Mouse theaters, the Music Hall, one of Portland, Oregon's Paramount theaters (1928) (designed by Rapp & Rapp with Priteca & Peters), and the Orpheum (1926-1927) (designed by B. Marcus Priteka).<ref name="musical house"/> Clemmer owned at least two theaters including the Dream Theater in Seattle's Kenneth Hotel (the first in the U.S. to feature a pipe organ) and built the Clemmer Theater (1912). Theater chain owner John Hamrick called him "the best theater manager I ever knew<ref name="musical house">Erin O'Connor [http://www.musicalhousebandb.com/img/musicalhouse-history.pdf The Clemmer House 1909] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714133801/http://www.musicalhousebandb.com/img/musicalhouse-history.pdf |date=2011-07-14 }} Musical House B and B</ref>
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==Further reading== 91 Clemmer's Dream by Paul Dorpat ''Seattle Now and Then'' Volume 1 2nd Ed. (Seattle 1984)
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