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Massachusetts
Globe Theatre
Friday, June 2, 1882 (Afternoon)
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper notice
The Fitchburg Sentinel, June 3, 1882, 2
Wilde's second lecture in Boston.
Letter (Oscar Wilde)
To Ian Forbes Robertson
May 28, 1882, O'Neill House, Woodstock, ON
I have been obliged to alter my Boston lecture to next Friday.
Globe Theatre (1874)
364 Washington Street, near the corner of Essex Street, Boston, MA
Original building: 1867 (as Selwyn's)
Destroyed (fire): May 1873
Second building: December 1874 (B.F. Dwight, architect)
Seating capacity: 2200
Destroyed (fire): January 1894
* There was a third Globe Theatre at 692 Washington Street built in 1903 (Arthur H. Vina, architect), extant
Vendome Hotel
SW corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street, Boston, MA
Built: 1871 (William G. Preston, architect)
Sold: 1879
Expanded: 1881-82 (J.F. Ober, architect)
Sold: 1971, renovated
Partially destroyed (fire): June 17, 1972*. Subsequently rebuilt
Extant as an office and condominium complex
* In terms of loss of life, the Vendome fire is the worst fire-fighting disaster in Boston history. Nine fire-fighters died when a 40-by-45 foot section of wall collapsed burying a ladder truck (Ladder 15) and seventeen firefighters beneath a two-story pile of debris.
Letter sent from Boston by Wilde to his manager, Col. W. F. Morse:
“Mr. Moore paid only 250 dollars - and no expenses at all.”
Oscar Wilde In America | © John Cooper, 2024
