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New Jersey
Park Theatre
Tuesday, May 9, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper report (below)
Newark Morning Record, May 10, 1882, 1
Newspaper Advertisement Opposite)
Newark Morning Record, May 9, 1882
Note in the advertisement that at the same theatre on the day after Wilde's lecture, there is a performance of the comic opera Patience which Wilde was being used to promote.
Park Theatre
14-16 West Park Street*, Newark, NJ
As the Park Presbyterian Church
Dedicated: 1850
Occupied: 1851
Abandoned and sold: 1872
As the Park Theatre
Remodeled: c. 1872
Closed as a theatre: c. 1887
As a library
Reconstructed: c. 1887 by the Newark Library Association
Occupied: 1889-1901 (by the Free Public Library)
Occupied: 1901 (by the New Jersey Historical Society)
Now demolished.
West Park Street is now more commercially renamed Prudential Dr. for the 20-story annex to the Prudential HQ that now stands there. As a reminder of its former west-side counterpart, East Park Street still exists across Broad Street beyond Military Park.
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