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The theatre was wired for sound in 1915 - more than a decade before talkies existed - making it likely the first American movie house acoustically designed for pictures that could speak. The Parkway Theatre at 5 West North Avenue in Baltimore's Station North district opened on 23 October 1915 and reopened on 3 May 2017 as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway Film Center. The original was Baltimore-born architect Oliver Birkhead Wight's Italian Renaissance jewel for the Northern Amusement Com...