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Stratford's Opera House
Friday, May 26, 1882
The Decorative Arts
The New York Mirror, c. June 1882
Newspaper report
The Brantford Expositor, May 27?, 1882
Newspaper advertisement
Newspaper unknown, May, 1882
The date 1881 is a typographical error.
Stratford's Opera House
140 Colborne Street, Brantford, ON (now Harmony Square)
Built: 1866, as Ker's Hall (James Ker)*
Converted: 1881 (Joseph Stratford)
Opened as Stratford's Opera House: October 1881
Seating capacity: 1000 (600 iron opera chairs plus ordinary seating in gallery, circles and private boxes)
Destroyed (fire): January 10, 1908
* Not James Kerby, another prominent Brantford developer.
Wilde did stay overnight in Brantford but his lodgings are unknown. The most likely hotel would have been Kerby House.
Oscar Wilde In America | © John Cooper, 2025
