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Alabama
Frascati Theatre
Wednesday, June 28, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper report
The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, LA), June 29, 1882, 4
Newspaper advertisement
Mobile Register, June 28, 1882
Frascati Theatre
Frascati Park, Old Shell Road, Mobile, AL (on the western shore of Mobile Bay)
Park developed: 1860s (Henry Nabring)
Owner in 1882: Apolonia Horst (widow of Martin Horst, who had purchased the site)
Destroyed (storm): October 2, 1893
Later: Monroe Park
Now: Brookley Field
Battle House Hotel
SE corner of Royal and Francis Streets, Mobile, AL
Opened: November 13, 1852 (James Battle)
Destroyed (fire): 1905
Replaced: 1908 by a second Battle House Hotel, now The Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel, extant
WILDE MEETS JEFFERSON DAVIS
Newspaper article
The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, LA), June 30, 1882
On his way from New Orleans to Mobile, Wilde stopped off at Biloxi to visit Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederate States of America, at his home at Beauvoir.
Sketch of Wilde in Mrs Jefferson Davis’ copy of Wilde’s Poems.
Oscar Wilde In America | © John Cooper, 2025
