historical note
Horticultural Hall *
250 South Broad Street, (below Locust), Philadelphia, PA


Built: 1881 (Addison Hutton)
Opened: January 5, 1882, 12 days before Wilde's lecture
Replaced: Samuel Sloan's original Horticultural Hall on the same site (July 1867-January 31, 1881, fire)
Destroyed: May 27, 1893 (fire)
Replaced by: (New) Horticultural Hall (Frank Miles Day) on the same site (b. 1894-96, demolished 1917)
* Many thanks and appreciation to Mark Samuels Lasner (Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library) for his work in identifying this location, and for confirming the building chronology of the various Horticultural Halls (see feature below).