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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Seven storeys above one gilded theatre sits another, its ceiling hung with thousands of real beech branches - the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre at 189 Yonge Street in Toronto is the last operating double-decker theatre in the world. Thomas W. Lamb designed the stacked pair as the Canadian flagship of Marcus Loew's vaudeville chain: the lower house opened as Loew's Yonge Street Theatre on 13 December 1913, and the Winter Garden followed upstairs on 16 February 1914. The two rooms were b...