Oscar Wilde In America

A Selected Resource Of Oscar Wilde's Visits To America

Kansas City

Missouri

Coates Opera House

Monday, April 17, 1882

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Verification

Newspaper report

The Atchison Globe, (Atchison, KS) April 18, 1882, 1

Newspaper Item

The Wyandott Herald, (Kansas City) April 20, 1882, 3

Venue

Coates Opera House

NW corner of 10th Street and Broadway, Kansas City, MO

Built: January 1869 (Kersey Coates 1823—1887)

Dedicated: October 6, 1870

Opened: September 1871

Seating capacity: 1800

Destroyed (fire): 1901

Replaced by: a warehouse of the Rothenburg and Schloss tobacco firm (1910)

Accommodation

Coates House Hotel

SE corner of 10th Street and Broadway, Kansas City, MO

Built: 1871

Demolished: during the rebuilding of the New Coates House Hotel 1886-90

Ephemera

Kansas City Star, April 15, 1882, 4

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