Oscar Wilde In America

A Resource Of Oscar Wilde and His Visits To America

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San Francisco

California

Platt's Hall

Wednesday, March 29, 1882

The Decorative Arts

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Verification

Newspaper report

Daily Alta California (San Francisco, CA), March 30, 1882, 1

Newspaper Advertisement

Daily Alta California (San Francisco, CA), March 25, 1882

The notice says this lecture would ‘positively’ be Wilde's last in San Francisco. In fact, there were two more.

Venue

Platt's Hall

216 Montgomery Street, east side, just north of Bush Street, San Francisco, CA

Opened: August 6, 1860 (Henry B. Platt, contractor and proprietor)

Demolished: 1890

Accommodation

Wilde's base while in the Bay Area was The Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

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