{{Short description|Building in Toronto, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2026}} {{Refimprove|date=December 2009}} right|thumb|275px|The Old Fire Hall in 2007 '''The Old Fire Hall''' is the name given to the original home of The Second City company in Toronto and is located at 110 Lombard Street.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first= Mike |date=2012 |title=The Second City Unscripted |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=fvmjk4AY4JsC|location= |publisher= Northwestern University Press|page=222|isbn=9780810128446}}</ref> The Old Fire Hall was built in 1886 and served as the Toronto Fire Department Headquarters until 1910. It was vacated in 1970,<ref name =comp/> Second City performed there from 1973 until 1997, when it moved to 56 Blue Jays Way (in 2005, the company moved to 51 Mercer Street, and in 2022 it moved to One York Street).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-08 |title=A look inside Toronto’s swanky new Second City headquarters |url=https://torontolife.com/city/a-look-inside-torontos-splashy-new-second-city-headquarters/ |access-date=2025-05-25 |website=Toronto Life |language=en}}</ref>
Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Mike Myers, Catherine O'Hara, Gilda Radner, Martin Short and Dave Thomas, among others, all got their starts there.
From 2001 until 2011, the Old Fire Hall was the home of Gilda's Club Toronto. Named after Gilda Radner, who had performed with Second City at the Old Fire Hall prior to joining ''Saturday Night Live'', Gilda's Club is a support group and meeting place for people living with cancer.
In 2012, the Old Fire Hall became the new home of the Complections College of Makeup Art and Design.<ref name = "comp">{{cite news|title=Old Fire Hall becomes Complections College of Makeup Art and Design|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2012/05/11/old_fire_hall_becomes_complections_college_of_makeup_art_and_design.html|accessdate=February 4, 2021|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=May 11, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 31, 2011 |title=Everything old is new again - The Old Fire Hall returns to its creative roots as the NEW home of Complections College of Makeup Art and Design |url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/868573/everything-old-is-new-again-the-old-fire-hall-returns-to-its-creative-roots-as-the-new-home-of-complections-college-of-makeup-art-and-design |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104113951/http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/868573/everything-old-is-new-again-the-old-fire-hall-returns-to-its-creative-roots-as-the-new-home-of-complections-college-of-makeup-art-and-design |archive-date=January 4, 2012 |access-date=January 25, 2012 |work=Canada News Wire}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} 4. Friebe, Marla. A History of the Toronto Fire Services 1874-2002. Toronto: City of Toronto, 2003.
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