Please read Alexey Sklyarenko's annotations on Pale Fire, Ada and other Nabokov works here.
According to Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969), all the hundred floramors (palatial brothels built all over the world by David van Veen, a wealthy architect of Flemish extraction, in memory of his grandson Eric) opened simultaneously on September 20, 1875: