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Lecture Tour of America 1882

Writing and Research on Oscar Wilde

Hartford

Connecticut


Grand Opera House

Thursday, February 2, 1882


The English Renaissance

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Oscar Wilde in Hartford

Verification

Newspaper report

Hartford Daily Courant, Feb 3, 1882

Roberts' Opera House, Oscar Wilde ad.

From the Blog:

Oscar’s Oyster Supper

Roberts' Opera House 937 Main Street, Hartford, CT. Oscar Wilde

Venue

Roberts' Opera House

937 Main Street, Hartford, CT


Opened: January 20, 1869 (W.H. Roberts)

Change of management: July 1, 1886, upgraded (F.F. Proctor)

Demolished: c. 1900

Roberts' Opera House 937 Main Street, Hartford, CT. Oscar Wilde stage

Behind the Opera House is Christ Church Cathedral (1829—extant)

United States Hotel 26 State Street, Hartford, CT. Oscar Wilde lodging

United States Hotel and Honiss Oyster House, State Street, Hartford, CT. Honnis Oyster House closed on March 1, 1982 after 137 years of operation. 


See note below about Wilde's oyster supper.

Accommodation

United States Hotel

26 State Street, Hartford, CT


Built: 1826 (site of Ripley's Coffee House)

Opened: April 16, 1827

Rebuilt and enlarged: 1855

Improvements: 1869 (consolidated with Trumbull House)

Converted to mercantile use: c. 1900, subsequently demolished 

Ephemera

Wilde Oyster Supper

The New North-West, Deerfield, MT, March 10, 1882, 1

Wilde”s Cigarette Holder?

Listing from the Auction Catalogue of the

A. E. Brooks's Collection, Hartford Press (1899)

An Esthete's Appetite, The New North-West, Deerfield, MT, March 10, 1882. Oscar Wilde
Hartford Opera House Seating


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