The Eglinton Theatre opened its doors on April 15, 1936, featuring an Art Deco design by noted local architects Harold Solomon Kaplan and Abraham Sprachman. In the decades that followed, Kaplan & Sprachman's Eglinton Theatre screened hit movies ranging from The Sound Of Music to Star Wars to The Hunt for Red October before the changing theatre business led to the theatre's decline and eventual April 1, 2002 closure. The historic landmark reopened as an event venue in 2003 after extensive restoration and renovation, and is now known as the The Eglinton Grand. 

Celebrating the cultural and architectural significance of the site, Parks Canada and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada recently designated it as a National Historic Site.