Broadway Theatre
509 S. Broadway,
Baltimore,
MD
21231
509 S. Broadway,
Baltimore,
MD
21231
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The Sun article rivest266 found says that architect Benjamin Frank designed the 1916 theater that replaced the 1913 house on the site that had been ruined by fire in January, 1916.
Opened on May 20th, 1916 article:
Found on Newspapers.com
A permit to convert the ground floor of the building at 509-513 S. Broadway into a movie and vaudeville theater was granted to the Broadway Theatre Company on October 16, 1913. According to Robert Kirk Headley’s Motion Picture Exhibition in Baltimore: An Illustrated History and Directory of Theaters, 1895-2004, the architect for the conversion was Alfred Lowther Forrest.
Just added a 1950 poster to the Photos Section.
Here is a 2008 photo of the former Broadway Theatre