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New Brunswick
Mechanics’ Institute
Thursday, October 5, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper reports
The Gazette (Montreal, QC), October 6, 1882, 1
The St. Andrews Bay Pilot, October 12, 1882, 2
The Gazette (Montreal, QC), October 14, 1882, 2
Wilde lectured again in St. John on October 13, 1882.
Mechanics’ Institute to the left of St. John’s Anglican church (the ‘Stone Church’), c. 1865.
Mechanics’ Institute
Carleton Street, Saint John, NB
Organized: 1838
Built: 1840
Accommodation: Lecture Hall, Museum, Library, Reading Room, Committee Room, other apartments
Closed: 1890, later demolished
Royal Hotel
King and Germain Streets, Saint John, NB
Built: 1881
Demolished: 1970s
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