The Definitive Resource Of Oscar Wilde's Visits To America

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Montgomery

Alabama


McDonald’s Opera House

Thursday, June 29, 1882


The Decorative Arts

Verification

Newspaper reports

The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, LA), June 30, 1882

The Montgomery Advertiser, June 30, 1882


Newspaper advertisement

Montgomery Daily Advertiser, June 29, 1882, 4

The illustration of Wilde used in the advertisement is taken from The Kelly Sketch.

Venue

McDonald’s Opera House

214 Bibb Street, Montgomery, AL


Built: 1881 (Prof. George Freeman McDonald)

Opened: October 26, 1881

Seating capacity: 1000

Name changed: 1905, Bijou Theatre (Jake Wells, lessee)

Name changed: 1909, Majestic (vaudeville house)

Later: Various retail outlets

Destroyed (fire): June 4, 1927 (as Frank Tennille Furniture Company)

Accommodation

It is likely that Wilde stayed overnight in Montgomery, but no record of his stay has been found.

Ephemera

WILDE ATTENDS THE DANCE


Newspaper report

The Montgomery Advertiser, June 30, 1882


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