Oscar Wilde In America


DETAiled verification of Oscar Wilde’s lecture tour of North America

Atchison

Kansas


Corinthian Hall

Saturday, April 22, 1882


The Decorative Arts

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Verification


Newspaper reports

The Atchison Globe, April 24, 1882, 1

The Chicago Tribune, April 24, 1882

The Herald-Dispatch (Decatur, IL) April 29, 1882, 7


Newspaper advertisement

Atchison Daily Champion, April 21, 1882, 1

Lecture subject corrected

Atchison Daily Champion, April 22, 1882, 4 

Venue


Corinthian Hall

Fourth Street, between Kansas Avenue and Commercial Street (west side), Atchison, KS


Built: 1870-71 (Judge C. G. Foster, C. J. Drury, J. M. Linley) as an opera house

Premises: Second story above a stores occupied by Frank Howard and Janssen & Co.

Demolished: 1892 following the building's collapse 


Related:

Matters and Things, a review of Oscar Wilde in Atchison.

Accommodation


Otis House

Corner of Commercial and Second Streets, Atchison, KS


Opened: May 1873 (Mr. Eldredge of Lawrence, KS)

Rooms: 113

Premises: Four stories

Atchison Globe, February 24, 1892, 4

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