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Connecticut
Grand Opera House
Thursday, February 2, 1882
The English Renaissance
Newspaper report
Hartford Daily Courant, Feb 3, 1882
Roberts' Opera House
937 Main Street, Hartford, CT
Opened: January 20, 1869 (W.H. Roberts)
Change of management: July 1, 1886, upgraded (F.F. Proctor)
Demolished: c. 1900
Behind the Opera House is Christ Church Cathedral (1829—extant)
United States Hotel and Honiss Oyster House, State Street, Hartford, CT. Honnis Oyster House closed on March 1, 1982 after 137 years of operation.Â
See note below about Wilde's oyster supper.
United States Hotel
26 State Street, Hartford, CT
Built: 1826 (site of Ripley's Coffee House)
Opened: April 16, 1827
Rebuilt and enlarged: 1855
Improvements: 1869 (consolidated with Trumbull House)
Converted to mercantile use: c. 1900, subsequently demolishedÂ
Wilde Oyster Supper
The New North-West, Deerfield, MT, March 10, 1882, 1
Wilde”s Cigarette Holder?
Listing from the Auction Catalogue of the
A. E. Brooks's Collection, Hartford Press (1899)
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