The Definitive Resource Of Oscar Wilde's Visits To America

Halifax

Nova Scotia


Academy of Music

Monday, October 9, 1882


The Decorative Arts

VERIFICATION

Newspaper report

Halifax Morning Chronicle, October 10, 1882, 3

[Original unseen as noted by Kevin O’Brien in Oscar Wilde in Canada: An Apostle for the Arts, 1982, p. 131 (note p. 189).]


Report entitled: “Oscar Wilde’s Lecture Last Night”.


Indication

Ottawa daily Citizen, October 9, 1882, 1

Venue

Academy of Music
Barrington Street, at Spring Garden Road, Halifax, NS


Built: 1876

Opened: 1877

Seating: 1500

Renamed: 1918 (The Majestic)

Demolished: 1929
Replaced by: Capitol Theatre (1930)

Accommodation

Waverley Hotel

Pleasant Street, Halifax, NS (now 1266 Barrington St, Halifax, NS B3J 1Y5


Built: c. 1800, as a private residence

Converted: 1876 as Waverley House
Extant: as Waverley Inn


Grip, October 21, 1882, Vol. XIX No. 22, p. 2


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