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Lecture Tour of America 1882

Writing and Research on Oscar Wilde

St.Paul

Minnesota


Opera House

Thursday, March 16, 1882


The Decorative Arts

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Verification

Newspaper report

Daily Globe, (St.Paul, MN), March 17, 1882, p.1


Wilde spoke for a second time at the Opera House the following evening, March 17, on the occasion of St. Patrick's Day. Not regarded as a formal lecture.


See: St. Patrick's Day, 1882

Venue

Opera House

Wabasha Street between Third and Fourth Street, St. Paul, MN


Dedicated: February 22, 1867

Reconstructed: 1883

Destroyed (fire): January, 1888

Accommodation

Metropolitan Hotel

Washington and Third Streets, St. Paul, MN


Built: 1869-70

Opened: June 27, 1870

Demolished: 1913

Ephemera

MUD SLINGING

Pioneer Press (St.Paul), March 17, 1882


John Cooper on Oscar Wilde © 2026