January 8, 1885 

From http://sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/?p=2456  Chatterton Opera House, Posted on October 30, 2013 by editor 

However, on March 17, 1876, Rudolph’s was almost completely destroyed by fire. “There is a story that Mr. Bunn, upon being awakened with the news that the Opera house was burning down, remarked that he couldn’t put it out, and turned over and went to sleep again,” Gib Bunn wrote. 

The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a subscription library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. It has 600 feet (180 m) of papers, ledgers, and printed materials currently in 26 departmental or other record groups In 1986 the library received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities because of the collection's cultural importance.

See page 88 http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/rbrauneis/happybirthday/documents/History_Of_Music_In_Louisville.pdf

January 5 and 6, 1884

This church has owned and occupied three houses of worship: The original Plymouth Church, northwest corner of Meridian street and Monument Place, now a part of the English Hotel; the second Plymouth Church, on the southeast corner of Meridian and New York streets, on ground now occupied by the Federal Building, and the third, on Central avenue, at Fourteenth street, which was acquired by purchase and remodeled.  http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/5761/5242 

The College of Music of Cincinnati was founded in 1878 by George Ward Nichols and funded with a lead donation from Reuben Springer. The famed conductor Theodore Thomas was immediately hired as the director, a fitting choice since Thomas had been informally involved in education all his life by bringing symphonic music to people throughout the United States. Initially classes were held in Dexter Hall, which was adjacent to the newly-constructed Music Hall.  

The point mapped is actually the address of Angell Hall. Angell Hall is an academic building at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It was previously connected to the University Hall building, which was replaced by Mason Hall and Haven Hall. Angell Hall is named in honor of James Burrill Angell, who was the University's president from 1871-1909. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angell_Hall University Hall North wing (Mason Hall) built in 1840, South wing (South College) built in 1848, Central wing built in 1871.

Magnificent, majestic and massive, Detroit’s old Federal Building and Post Office was a towering palace of government that was more than three decades in the making, took seven years to build — and only 34 years to outgrow.

CASE HALL - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History 

The Victoria, one of the oldest continually operated theaters on the continent, was opened to the public as the Turner Opera House on New Year's Day, 1866, at a cost of $225,000. Its initial offering was the James Sheridan Knowles drama "Virginius, starring Edwin Forrest – a play strongly associated with the famous actor. According to press clippings of that era, the theater was referred to as "the best [sic] theater west of Philadelphia". General admission was $1.

December 31, 1884 [ http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html ]

The 3rd courthouse was quickly built in 1873, a grand French Renaissance-style building, with a clock and bell tower rising 113 feet into the sky. It had a mansard roof, and was constructed of brick with iron cornices. Its size was a disadvantage when fire broke out in 1901; ladders and water could not reach the upper floors where the fire began. Documents were however safe in fireproof vaults built to protect them.

 December 7 - Elks Lodge, New Osburn house, Rochester, New York - speech. Text not available.

Mark Twain and his manager James B. Pond were guests of the Rochester Elks Lodge. According to a report titled "The Elks' Social," in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, 8 December 1884, p. 6, "Mark Twain entertained the assemblage for some time by relating some of his personal experiences..." Text recovered by Leslie Myrick. \ http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html 

In 1879, the Pavilion Hall was built. It included a glass conservatory and was also used for concerts and social events. Oscar Wilde gave a lecture here in May 1882. The Hall burned down in 1902. It was replaced by the existing Victorian style conservatory known as the Palm House in 1910. \ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Gardens 

December 8 and 9, 1884 and February 14, 1885

I'm guessing this is the correct Concert Hall.

From http://rjbuffalo.com/BECHS/10-conce.doc

Once Rochester's premier lecture hall, site of addresses by such luminaries as abolitionists Susan B. Anthony and William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, and many others.  

Rather than take the train all the way in to Adelaide, Mark Twain and party disembarked at Aldgate and took an open carriage ride the 20 miles to Adelaide, accompanied by C.A. Murphy the American Consul. October 12, 1895 10:30am

A car park now occupies the site of the Theatre Royal. The image shows the second Theatre Royal to be built on this site in 1878 to the design of Melbourne architect George R Johnson. Seen here in 1890 it was a simple but well proportioned building with careful detailing, Corinthian pilasters, and was topped by a balustrade with urns and the royal coat of arms.  

Horsham (/ˈhɔrʃəm/, locally [ˈhoːʃəm]) is a regional city located on the Wimmera River in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, and is approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) north-west of the state capital Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Horsham had a population of 14,125. It is the largest city by population in the Wimmera region, and it is the main administrative centre for, and the most populous city within, the Rural City of Horsham local government area. 

October 17, 1895

The Troy Savings Bank was founded in 1823 and moved to its current location in 1870. In appreciation of the community's support, the plans for the new building called for a music hall to be built on the upper floors. In the early years of the 20th century the Music Hall featured performances from artists such as Lillian Nordica, Henri Vieuxtemps, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Albert Spalding, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Myra Hess and Jose Iturbi. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists including Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin and Artur Rubinstein played there.

Next door to the Sprague Block, on the southwest corner of State and Tioga, stood the Wilgus Block (1868). Brothers John M. Wilgus, an architect, and Henry L. Wilgus, a real estate dealer, built the Wilgus Block on the site of Dwight Tavern, an early "publick house." Wilcox and Porter of Buffalo designed the building. The Wilgus Opera House, seating 1600 people, occupied the third and fourth floors. Retail stores occupied the first floor, offices the second. The opera house was Ithaca's main entertainment center until the Lyceum Theater was built on South Cayuga Street in 1893.

December 4, 1884 Grand Opera House [ http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html ]

Twain and Cable played at the Grand Opera House in Syracuse but it was not at the Wieting Opera House. The attached clippings, provided me by Kimberly Kleinhans, librarian, Local History/Genealogy, Onondaga County Public Library, describe the offerings at both venues.

December 5, 1884 Opera House [ http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html ]

Joe Vogel on January 5, 2012 at 4:52 am  The Majestic Theatre was an extensive rebuilding of the Utica Opera House, which had been built in 1871. When Sam Shubert took over the lease on the Opera House in 1900, he had the building largely gutted and expanded to create a space for a more modern theater. In addition to the new Majestic, the building housed a second-floor assembly room at the Washington Street corner of the structure, and this was converted into the Orpheum Theatre in 1901. 

The Academy of Music in Baltimore, Maryland was an important music venue in that city after opening following the American Civil War. The Academy was located at 516 North Howard Street. The Academy was demolished in the late 1920s, as the Stanley Theatre was being built in the same block.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Music_%28Baltimore%29

November 28 & 29, 1884

Image from: http://mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com/page/12

I needed DuckDuckGo to find this location.  http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/8304 

Image from: http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/MediaStream.ashx?mediaId=32523 

November 21, 1884 and November 26th (two shows).

December 1, 1884 

On the corner of School and Park streets, a site which was earlier occupied by a school, the Town Hall was built to serve local government, house the District Court and The Registry of Deeds, as well as provide an auditorium on the second floor. A fire in 1949 destroyed the peaked roof and tower. When the building was remodeled, the façade underwent dramatic changes. The Police Station is located to the rear of Town Hall.  http://www.berkshires.com/Features9.php

November 14, 1884

Email from Barbara Schmidt: 26 Feb. 2015 

"As to Brockton, MA -- I did find a reference to a letter SLC wrote to Pond complaining that the Brockton venue had not been advertised sufficiently, and thus had a low turn out."

November 17, 1884 [ http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html ]

February 26, 1885 

Two shows, November 22, 1884 

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in 1908.

10th & G St NW, November 24 & 25, 1884 and February 28, 1885, the final show of the tour. 

in May 1868, the congregation moved into its new home at 10th and G St. NW. Its large brick building made a statement. The Congregationalists were here to stay.

The Boston Music Hall was a concert hall located on Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional entrance on Hamilton Place.

One of the oldest continuously operating theaters in the United States, it was built in 1852 and was the original home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The hall closed in 1900 and was converted into a vaudeville theater named the Orpheum Theatre.  The Orpheum, which still stands today, was substantially rebuilt in 1915 by architect Thomas W. Lamb as a movie theater.

The firm also ran the "Chickering Hall" concert auditorium in New York City at no.130 Fifth Avenue, 1875-1901. The building was situated on the north-west corner (not north-east contrary to some sources) of Fifth Avenue and West Eighteenth Street, and was the venue for Oscar Wilde's first lecture in America. [Source: New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age, Robert A.M. Stern (Author), Thomas Mellins (Author), David Fishman (Author)].  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickering_and_Sons

November 6, 1884, Music Hall \ \

The City of Orange is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 30,134, reflecting a decline of 2,734 (-8.3%) from the 32,868 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 2,943 (+9.8%) from the 29,925 counted in the 1990 Census. 

The Capitol was originally built as the Gilmore Opera House in 1857!  It burnt down in 1864, remodelled and reopened in 1865. In April, 1920, it became the Capitol Theater. It had a balcony with a total of 1,450 seats. A prosenium arch curved around the stage/screen and to the right of it, in a wall niche, was a 2,500 pipe Austin organ that was played during it’s silent movie days.  The exterior front had a long marquee with narrow title space on the front. Two verticle signs spelling Capitol hung on the building above either side of the marquee.

Huntington Hall/Merrimack Street Depot

By 1904, the building that housed both Huntington Hall and the Merrimack Street Depot had served as the city’s main public gathering place for generations. The City of Lowell and the Boston & Lowell Railroad entered into a joint agreement to build the hall in 1853, providing the railroad with the Merrimack Street Depot and the city with a public hall. Named for the early longtime Lowell mayor, Elisha Huntington, the building housed the hall in its upper stories, and the train depot on its bottom story.

November 12, 1884

The Colonial Revival-style City Hall of Waltham, designed by Kilham, Hopkins and Greeling, was built in 1926 and opened and dedicated in 1927. It stands on the old site of Rumford Hall, a building constructed a century earlier, in 1827, to house the Rumford Institute. Founded in 1826, the Institute was a lyceum, with lectures and classes in the arts and sciences for the female mill workers at the Boston Manufacturing Company, which built the Hall. An early instructor at the Institute was the Unitarian minister and educator, Bernard Whitman.

Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia. It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, and on Burra Creek.

The Coolgardie Gold Mine is a gold mine located at Coolgardie, Western Australia. The Coolgardie Gold Mine is not one single mine, but rather a generic term to describe a diverse group of mines - in essence, a mining locality. \ \

It is currently owned by Focus Minerals Limited, which also owns the nearby Nepean Nickel Mine, which closed in 1987.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolgardie_Gold_Mine

November 11, 1884 at Huntington Hall, or November 12, 1884 venue unknown

Sam wrote from Boston to James B. Pond, sending revised programs for two New York nights, and enclosing a letter from Orion in Keokuk, Iowa. Jan. 13 was one of the open dates there; Sam hoped he might read in Hannibal, Mo. on Jan. 12 and the next night in Keokuk. He advised Pond not to “sell the show” in Hannibal but to write to Sam’s old schoolmate, John H. Garth and he’d put Pond in touch with the right people. Sam wished to give all of his Hannibal proceeds to “some charity of the town” [MTP]."  This is from Day by Dayfor November 11, 1884.

November 17, 1884 [ http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/tourschd.html ]

Sam arrived in New York Nov. 17, 1884 and checked into the Everett House after the show in Plainfield, NJ  

November 18 & 19, 1884  http://bscottholmes.com/content/chickering-hall-new-york  

Sunday, November 23rd, 1884 Sam left New York for Washington D.C. Fears notes that both Twain and Cable left at this time but that is not likely as Cable would not travel on a Sunday.  

February 21, 1885

November 20, 1884   I have not seen anything to document it but I believe Sam would have taken the Newburgh to Beacon Ferry to access the Hudson River train to New York.

November 22, 1884: They gave two shows with the last ending at 10pm.

December 1, 1884

December 2, 1884 Music Hall

December 3, 1884

December 4, 1884 [ http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/tourschd.html ]

December 6, 1884

Interviewed 7 December 1884, Room 222 Powers Hotel "Mark Twain Encountered", Rochester Herald, 8 December 1884, 8  Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" by Gary Scharnhorst (#24) \

December 10 & 11, 1884

December 12, 1884

December 13, 1884 Unknown venue

December 15, 1884 Opera House 

December 29, 1884 Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Unable to find location.  

Interviewed: "Mark Twain Gets Shaved", Pittsburgh Penny Press, 29 December 1884, p4  In "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" (#27) 

Monongahela House  "Talk with Twain" Pittsburgh Chronicle, 29 December 1884, p1. (#28)  Mentions that the location of the church is on Sixth avenue. 

December 30, 1884

December 31, 1884 [ http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/tourschd.html ] 

January 1, 1885 [ http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html ]

January 2 & 3, 1885 Odeon Hall  

Interviewed 11pm 2 January 1885 in the St. Nicholas dining room  "The Humorists Interviewed" Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 January 1885, p4 

 Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" (#30)

January 5 & 6, 1885 Leiderkranz Hall 

Interviewed 5 January 1885 "A Great Humorist," Louisville Post 5 January 1885, p1  

Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" (#31) The Galt House: Built in 1835 at the corner of Second and Main on the Louisville waterfront. 

January 12, 1885 Opera House

January 13, 1885

January 14, 1885 Opera House 

Interview 34 January 1885 Fort Madison (Iowa) Democrat; rpt Iowa Journal of History and Politics 27 (October 1929): 27-32  

Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" (#34)

January 15, 1885 Opera House

January 16 & 17, 1885  and February 2 & 3, 1885  Central Music Hall

January 18, 1885 (Missed dated at http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/tourschd.html as this date is a Sunday) 

January 19. 1885 http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html  Methodist Church - unknown location

January 20, 1885 Opera House

January 21, 1885  and  January 27, 1885

Methodist Church unknown location

January 22, 1885 Opera House

January 23, 1885 Market Hall

Unable to find location of Market Hall except that it was located on Seventh St. and burned down in 1915.

January 26, 1885 Philharmonic Hall

 January 28 & 29, 1885 Academy of Music

Interviewed: "Talk with Mark Twain," Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, 29 January 1885, p2  

Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" (#36)  Plankinton House 

January 30, 1885 Opera House

January 31, 1885 Burtis Opera House

February 4, 1885 Opera House

February 5, 1885 Academy of Music

HISTORIC THEATRE BURNS.  Grand Opera House in New Haven Destroyed, with Loss of $80,000.  NEW HAVEN, April 25.---

November 8, 1884 

We were able to determine from the Providence Board of Trade Journal (vol. 2, p.94, 1891) that Blackstone Hall was on the corners of Washington and Snow Streets in downtown Providence. And that it could accommodate 500-600 people. We could not identify a specific address.  

We do have a copy of a glass plate negative of Blackstone Hall which locates it at Washington and Acorn Sts. In the photo we believe the hall is the building with the cupola as it was described as "architecturally excellent" in that same Board of Trade mention. 

November 5, 1884  http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/twntur31.html

February 23, 1885 Opera House  http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html

December 17, 1884

November 7, 1884

January 8, 1885

November 8, 1884  http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/twintur18.html

November 10, 1884 - Melrose Lyceum or Town Hall (depending on source)  http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/twntur30.html

January 7, 1885 

February 7, 1885  Plymouth Church

February 9, 1885 Comstock's Opera House

February 11, 1885 First Congregational Church

December 16, 1884  

February 12, 1885  

Interviewed "The Funny Men in Bed"  Detroit Post, 17 December 1884, p4  In "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" (#26)

February 13, 1885 YMCA Hall unable to find address

December 8 and 9, 1884  

February 14, 1885  

Horticultural Gardens Pavilion 

Interviewed 9 December 1884 (8th?)  "The Genial Mark: An Interview"  Toronto Globe, 9 December 1884, 2  Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" by Gary Scharnhorst (#25) \

February 16, 1885 Grand Opera House 

The Revere

February 17, 1885 Opera House

February 18 & 19, 1885 Queen's Hall  and an impromptu speech at Tuque Bleue Snowshoe Club. 2/18/85

February 20, 1885 Town Hall unknown location.

November 21, 1884 at Association Hall 

Stayed in Philadelphia that night. Got up at 6am of the 22nd for two shows in Brooklyn.  

November 26, 1884 at Association Hall 

February 26, 1885 at Academy of Music 

Interview: "Mark Twain and the President," Philadelphia Press, 27 November 1884, 3.  Included in "Mark Twain The Complete Interviews" by Gary Scharnhorst (#22)

November 28 & 29, 1884 Academy of Music  

February 27, 1885 Oratorio Hall (Unknown location) 

Twain interviewed 28 November 1884  "Mark Twain's Ideas: A Talk with the Humorist" Baltimore American, 29 November 1884, Included in "Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" by Gary Scharnhorst (#23)

November 24 & 25, 1884: Twain and Cable stayed in Washington D.C. the nights of the 24th and 25th, leaving for Philadelphia the morning of the 26th. 

February 28, 1885

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people. Light's design set out Adelaide in a grid layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parklands.

Broken Hill is an isolated mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, has roots in the town.