Green Dragon Tavern opens.

[1662-Mann, Todisco, 1712] Previously the Bakers’ Arms Tavern and operated by Richard Pullen, it is located Baker’s Arms Tavern near today’s 84 Union Street. Richard Pullen is the proprietor. One of the earliest taverns in Boston, it is purchased by the St. Andrew’s Lodge of Freemasons as their headquarters in 1764. Its second story “Long Room” becomes a popular meeting place for those organizing resistance to British rule after the Boston Tea Party. The building is purchased by Dr. William Douglas in 1743 and later used by the Massachusetts Charitable Association. The building is demolished in 1828 [1850s-BGL]. A tavern of the same name at 11 Marshall Street opens in 1993.