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Ohio
Grand Opera House
Thursday, February 23, 1882
(Matinee)
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper report
The Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb 24, 1882, 5 col. 4
Letter (Oscar Wilde)
To Colonel W. F. Morse (his manager)
c. February 26, 1882
“They were dreadfully disappointed at Cincinnati at my not wearing knee-breeches”.
Letters, 141
Related:
Wilde's visit to the opera:
Grand Opera House (formerly Mozart Hall)
Vine and Longworth Streets, Cincinnati, OH
Built: 1853 (as the Catholic Institute)
Seating: c. 2,000
Destroyed (fire): January 22, 1901
Burnet House
NW corner of Third and Vine Streets, Cincinnati, OH
Built: 1849
Opened: May 30, 1850
Rooms: c. 300
Closed and demolished: July 15, 1926
The Burnet House, as originally built with dome.
Picturesque Cincinnati, John Shillito Company, 1883, p.23
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