Tontine Crescent is built.

[1793, 1795] Architect: Charles Bulfinch. A row of 16 connected, brick houses, it is located along the south side of today’s Franklin Street. Plans to build a mirror row of houses on the north side of the street are subsequently abandoned. Although a financial failure, Jane Holtz Kay subsequently calls the Tontine Crescent “[Boston’s first true] piece of urban architecture . . . [and] where the notion of the full block and the city-as-a-conscious-work-of-art became the Boston mode.” The buildings are torn down to make way for commercial buildings and the street is renamed Franklin Street in 1858.