Colorado
Tabor Grand Opera House
Saturday, April 15, 1882
The House Beautiful
Biographical account
Lewis and Smith, Oscar Wilde Discovers America 1882, (1936), p. 324
Contains several local contemporary newspaper reports of Wilde's second appearance in Denver on April 15th, and quotes the known content of Wilde's alternative lecture The House Beautiful.
This was Wilde's second lecture in Denver (see also April 12, 1882)
Newspaper advertisement
The Daily Denver News, April 13, 1882, 4
Tabor Grand Opera House (and hotel)
Southwest corner of Sixteenth and Curtis Streets, Denver, CO
Built: 1880-81 (W.J. Edbrooke, F. P. Burnham, Chicago, IL, for Horace A. W. Tabor)
Opened: 1881
Remodeled: 1921 (as a movie theater)
Demolished: 1964
Site now occupied by: a bank
Wilde's second lecture in Denver within three days.
Related:
Wilde had also appeared at another Tabor Opera House two days earlier when he lectured in Leadville, CO.
Windsor Hotel
Northeast corner of 18th and Larimer Streets, Denver, CO
Built: 1879-80 (James Duff)
Opened: June 23, 1880
Demolished: 1960s
Replaced by: a parking lot
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