Belnord Theatre
2700 Pulaski Highway,
Baltimore,
MD
21224
2700 Pulaski Highway,
Baltimore,
MD
21224
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2019 Google Street View shows renovations being done.
Belnord theatre opening article and ad
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A monograph on Baltimore theaters that I found in the LA library has a photo of the Belnord circa 1937:
http://tinyurl.com/yfg9v6t
I would think so, since the article mentioned that 2706 used to be the Belnord Theater.
It looks like the building was being used for music shows last year, but that place has now closed. It was called The Local Highrise.
http://tinyurl.com/6p8qk8
Lost Memory: The Free State Theater Organ Society (in Catonsville, Maryland) owns what’s left of the pipework from the organ. The console was a “straight” type console (like a Church organ) and not the “horseshoe” design.
From the 1937 photo I have of the exterior, I would say the style was Restrained Classical. (I wish we could get the add-a-photo back up and working on the site)
According to the book “Exit” – A History of movies in Baltimore; by Robert Kirk Headley Jnr (1974) this was the 2nd Belnord Theatre on the site.
‘The original Belnord may have been opened by Louis Kolb and Charles Bender sometime between the summer of 1911 and 1913.
A new theatre was built on the site in 1921. The Belnord opened on 14th May 1921 with Katherine MacDonald starring in “The Beauty Market”. The architect was William O. Sparklin and it was built upon Greek lines. Seating was given as between 1,700 and 2,000. It closed in the fall of 1969'.
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1941 gives a seating capacity of 1,750. In the FDY, 1950 a seating capacity is given as 1,577.
Headers for this listing need to be changed:
Status; Closed
Style: Greek