King Edward Hotel
The King Edward Hotel is part of the Le Meridien chain of hotels. Officially known as the Le Royal Meridien King Edward Hotel, it is also colloquially called the King Eddie. Opened in 1902 by the famous architect E.J. Lennox, the hotel was granted the name by King Edward VII. After a number of years of decline, the hotel was restored in 1981 by Stanford Downey Architects Inc. At the top of the hotel is the rarely-used Crystal Ballroom that was added onto the hotel in 1921 and used until the early 1950s. The Ballroom, once the most fashionable in the city, was not restored in the 1980s with the rest of the hotel, and is now used for fly fishing practice.