< Main Menu
New York
The Mathewson Hotel
Monday, August 7, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper reports
The Narragansett Times, Aug 11, 1882 (left)
The Camden Post (New Jersey), Aug 8, 1882 (below)
My gratitude goes to Jessica Wilson, South Kingstown Public Library/Peace Dale for sourcing the press clipping on this page from the microform archive of the Narragansett Times.
I am grateful also for the support of Brian Gallagher and Prof. Jim Kinnie of the University of Rhode Island Carothers Library; Shirley Eastham, President of the Narragansett Historical Society; and Samuel Judd, Reference and Information Services Librarian at the Maury Loontjens Memorial Library.
The Mathewson Hotel
Ocean Road, Narragansett Pier, RI
Built: 1868, near and incorporating the original Mathewson home (b. 1865)
Guest rooms: 270
Wilde lectured in: the Dining Room
Renamed: 1917, The New Mathewson Hotel
Closed: November 1917, property put up for sale
Demolished: 1919
Related:
Oscar Wilde In America | © John Cooper, 2025
