James Clemmer

Who is James Clemmer?

James Clemmer was a vaudeville and movie theater manager at the film industry's start in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. His home, the Clemmer house, is a Spanish Mission style residence, also referred to as a "hybrid Mission Revival", that was later converted to a bed and breakfast hotel.

Clemmer managed the Fifth Avenue theater, the Winter Garden, the Music Box, various Blue Mouse theaters, the Music Hall, one of Portland, Oregon's Paramount theaters, and the Orpheum. Clemmer owned at least two theaters including the Dream Theater in Seattle's Kenneth Hotel and built the Clemmer Theater. Theater chain owner John Hamrick called him "the best theater manager I ever knew