Verification
Newspaper report
The Milwaukee Sentinel, Mar 6, 1882, 5
Sunday, March 5, 1882
The Milwaukee Sentinel, Mar 6, 1882, 5
Water and Oneida (now 144 E. Wells) Streets, Milwaukee, WI
[1] The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries web site erroneously gives the date of the fire as 1893
Grand Opera House and City Hall (right), Milwaukee, WI
Source: Milwaukee Public Library
West Water and Second (now Plankinton) Streets, Milwaukee, WI [1]
[1] Later address was 123 Grand Ave., now 161 W Wisconsin Ave.
The Plankinton House Hotel extended, as it looked at the time of Wilde's stay in Milwaukee.
The original Plankinton House Hotel in Milwaukee.
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