Oscar Wilde In America


A Selected Resource Of Oscar Wilde's Visits To America

Oscar Wilde In America


DETAiled verification of Oscar Wilde’s lecture tour of North America

San Francisco

California


Platt's Hall

Monday, March 29, 1882


The Decorative Arts

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Verification

Newspaper report

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



Indication


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

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


See also clarification about lecture titles.

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 California was The Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

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