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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

Vancouver's oldest ballroom has been remaking itself for over a century, and its current form is the city's most storied nightclub. Celebrities at 1022 Davie Street occupies a building designed by Thomas Hooper - one of British Columbia's most important early architects - permitted in 1911 as a dancing academy and apartment house and finally opened in September 1914 as Lester Court, home of Frederick and Maud Lester's dance academy. As the Embassy Ballroom from 1933 it anchored the city's gentee...

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