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Ohio
Music Hall
Tuesday, May 2, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper report
Dayton Daily Democrat, May 3, 1882, 4
Newspaper Advertisement
Dayton Daily Democrat, April 24, 1882, 1
The original Turner Opera House
Music Hall
Southeast corner of First and Main Streets, Dayton OH (now 138 North Main Street, Dayton, OH 45402)
Opened: November 28, 1871 (auspices of The Music Hall Company, T.S. Babbitt, president)
Seating capacity: c. 1200
Premises: when the six-story Turner Opera House (1866) was destroyed by fire on May 16, 1869, a three-story edifice was rebuilt incorporating only a part the surviving facade of its predecessor; it resumed operations as the Music Hall
Name change: 1885, The Grand Opera House
Name change: 1899, Victoria Opera House
Name change: 1903, Victoria Theatre
Damaged (fire): 1918
Remodeled: 1919 as Victory Theatre
Various improvements: 1930—1970s
Renovated and restored: 1989 as Victoria Theatre (extant)
The Turner Opera House after the 1866 fire
Rebuilt as the Music Hall where Wilde lectured
The Victoria Theatre renovated 1989 (extant)
Beckel House
Northwest corner of Third and Jefferson Streets, Dayton, OH
Opened: 1866
Demolished: 1964
Opposite: lobby of the Beckel House
Oscar Wilde In America | © John Cooper, 2025
