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Lecture Tour of America 1882

Writing and Research on Oscar Wilde

Minneapolis

Minnesota

Academy Of Music

Wednesday, March 15, 1882

The Decorative Arts

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Verification

Newspaper item

Daily Globe, (St.Paul, MN), March 16, 1882, p.3

Also noted

Minneapolis Tribune, March 16, 1882

OSCAR WILDE.

Arrival of this Much-Talked-of Young Man in this City Yesterday Afternoon

He Tells a Small Audience in the Evening what he knows about Decorative Art

AN “ASS-THETE”

Oscar Wilde, “the apostle of beauty,” and the most talked about young man of the day, arrived in Minneapolis from Chicago yesterday afternoon and registered at the Nicollet.

Venue

Academy of Music

Washington and Hennepin Avenues, Minneapolis, MN

Built: 1871 (Joseph Hodges)

Opened: Jan. 2, 1872

Destroyed (fire): December 25, 1884

Accommodation

Nicolett House

Washington and Nicolett Avenues, Minneapolis, MN

Opened: 1858

Demolished: 1923 (replaced by the New Nicollet House.

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