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Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres

Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres is a National Historic Site of Canada in Toronto, Ontario.

Ontario · 189 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario · location approximate

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ELGIN AND WINTER GARDEN THEATRES Designed by New York architect Thomas Lamb for the Loew circuit, this double-decker complex was unique in Canada, and included many features later found in movie palaces. The lower theatre, with "Renaissance" decor, opened in late 1913. It shared its vaudeville and movie shows with the smaller Winter Garden above, which opened in early 1914 and was extraordinarily decorated with real beech leaves and garden murals. The Winter Garden was closed in 1928, and remained essentially untouched for over half a century.

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LES THEATRES ELGIN ET WINTER GARDEN Thomas Lamb, architecte de New-York, conçut ce complexe à deux étages pour la chaîne Loew. Unique en son genre au Canada, il comportait des éléments précurseurs des cinémas-palaces. Le théâtre inférieur, à décor dit Renaissance, ouvrit à la fin de 1913. Il partageait ses séances de cinéma et de vaudeville avec le Winter Garden, situé à l'étage supérieur et de dimensions moindres. Ouvert en 1914, celui-ci était décoré de façon extraordinaire, avec de vraies feuilles de hêtre et des murales représentant des jardins. Il ferma ses portes en 1928, mais il resta essentiellement intact pendant plus de 50 ans.

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This plaque text is recorded in the Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, published by Parks Canada for the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Plaque texts come from the Directory’s open dataset in the languages the Directory publishes them in; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the Directory’s street address or local area and marked approximate. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
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