Ontario
Grand Opera House
Tuesday, May 16, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Ottawa newspaper report and interview
Montreal Daily Witness, May 19, 1882, 8
Newspaper report
The Ottawa Daily Citizen, May 17, 1882, 1
Reported that “there was a fairly good audience,” for Wilde's lecture.
Grand Opera House
134 Albert Street, between O’Connor and Metcalfe Streets, Ottawa, ON
Built: 1874
Destroyed (fire): July 6, 1913
Russell House
SE corner of Sparks and Elgin Streets, Ottawa, ON
A small hotel first built on the site: 1840s
Renamed: 1863 (Russell House)
Enlarged: 1874
Enlarged: 1880
Closed: 1925
Destroyed (fire): 1928
On arrival in Ottawa, Wilde went immediately to the Russell House, the finest hotel in the city at the time, where he was interviewed by the Toronto Globe and “fairly besieged by autograph hounds."
The following day Wilde departed Ottawa by the 4.55 pm train to Quebec City.
Russell House — drawing room
Russell House — dining room
Oscar Wilde In America | © John Cooper, 2023
