Oscar Wilde's 1882 Lecture Tour

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- 27 New York

Venue

Lee Avenue Baptist Church, AKA: South Baptist Church

Lee Avenue between Wilson and Taylor Streets, Brooklyn, NY (now 27 Lee Avenue between Wilson and Roebling Streets)

Built: 1872 (Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, pastor)

Construction: corrugated iron and wood; laid out from designs by Lawrence B. Valk, architect

Audience Room: the church retained an audience room from a previous brick church building on the same site for use as a lecture hall*

Seating capacity: c. 1000

Closed: July 1881

Remodeled: 1882, as a music hall

Reopened: October 1882

Seating capacity: 1700

Closed: 1895

Also known variously as Lee Avenue or Williamsburg Academy of Music, the Lee Avenue Academy #7, Phoebus Theatre (for one season), and the Lee Avenue Music Academy

Renovated: 1900, as Corse Payton’s Lee Avenue Theater

Demolished: 1916

* After the church closed in July 1881 (services moved to the All Souls' Universalist Church), it did not reopen officially as a theater until October 1882. Wilde lectured in the old audience room of the church.