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Quebec
Queen's Hall
Monday, May 20, 1882
The House Beautiful
Newspaper report
Montreal Daily Witness, May 22, 1882, 4
Queen’s Hall
NW corner of St. Catherine and Victoria Streets, Montreal, QC (now the location of Complexe Les Ailes)
Built: 1880 (as a music hall)
Seating capacity: 1159
Converted: 1891 (as a theater)
Destroyed (fire): 1899
Windsor Hotel
1488-89 Peel Street, at the corner of Dorchester Street West, Montreal, QC (now 1155 René Lévesque Boulevard West)
Construction started: 1875
Construction completed: January 28, 1878
Partially destroyed (fire): 1957
Demolished: 1957-59
Replaced by: CIBC Tower (opened 1962, extant)
Wilde returned to Montreal from Quebec City on Friday, May 19, and stayed until Monday, May 22 when he departed for Kingston, ON.
His accommodation was likely the same as his original stay in Montreal five days earlier.
Oscar Wilde In America | © John Cooper, 2024
