Ontario
City Hall (Theatre)
Tuesday, May 23, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper report
The Belleville Daily Ontario, May 25, 1882, 3
Report of Wilde's lecture under the heading "The English Renaissance".
Quoted in Oscar Wilde in Canada, Kevin O'Brien, 1882
Newspaper advertisement
Oswego Morning Express, May 19, 1882
City Hall (theatre)
Front Street at McAnnay Street, Belleville, ON (now 169 Front Street between Macannay and Market Streets, )
Built: 1872-73 as an administrative town hall and market (John D. Evans, architect)
Name changed: 1877 when Belleville became a city
Stage: was a movable platform on trusses
Seating capacity: 600 on wooden benches
Extant
Dafoe House
NE corner of Bridge and Pinnacle Streets, Belleville, ON (now 211 Pinnacle Street)
Built: 1847
Destroyed (fire): 1855 and rebuilt
Destroyed (fire): October 4, 1886
Replaced by: Hotel Quinte, 1895
Mostly destroyed (fire): January 5, 1907 and rebuilt
Reopened: February 27, 1908
Partially destroyed (fire): December, 2012 during renovations, and demolished
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