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Colorado
Tabor Opera House
Thursday, April 13, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper reports
The Leavenworth Times, April 16, 1882, 3
"OSCAR DEAR—Wilde Wrestles Wildly With the Art Decorative in this Mountain Wilderness"
Leadville Daily Herald, April 14, 1882
Tabor Opera House
308 Harrison Avenue, Leadville, CO
Built: 1879 (Horace A. W. Tabor)
Opened: November 20, 1879—extant
Seating capacity: 888
Feature: Third story bridge passage way to the Clarendon Hotel, next door
Related:
Wilde also appeared at the “Grand” Tabor Opera House on the previous evening when he lectured in Denver, CO.
Clarendon Hotel
Harrison Avenue and Main Street (adjacent to the opera house to the south), Leadville, CO
Built: 1878-79
Opened: April 10, 1879
Demolished: 1930s
Note: The Tabor Opera House seen under construction adjacent to the left
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