Today's Throwback Thursday features the remarkable degree of change that has occurred at the site of today's Studio Bell National Music Centre. Completed in 2016, the home of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame straddles the rebuilt historic edifice of the legendary music venue long known as the King Edward Hotel, or King Eddy, which dates to the early 1900s. 

King Eddy, 4 St SE and 9 Ave SE, October, 2012, image via Google Street View

Carefully catalogued, deconstructed, and rebuilt, the historic King Eddy has since reopened as a vibrant restaurant, bar, and live music venue, its beautifully recreated heritage facade smoothly incorporated into the much larger, swooping edifice of the Studio Bell National Music Centre. 

Studio Bell and King Eddy, 4 St SE and 9 Ave SE, May 2017, image via Google Street View

About as dramatic as they come, this week's Throwback Thursday highlights one of the best heritage restoration and redevelopment projects seen in the city for many years. 

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