Tremont House opens.

Architect: Isaiah Rogers. Designed in the Greek Revival style, the white Quincy granite building is built for William Eliot and located near today’s 73 Tremont Street. The hotel opens with a dinner attended by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett and some one hundred notable Bostonians. The first modern hotel in the U.S., it is the most elegant of its day. Guests can rent a single room rather than double up with strangers as previously, and each room comes with a key, wash bowl, pitcher, free soap, gas lights, and single permanent tooth brush. Guests include Presidents Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, and Johnson, Congressman Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and authors Alexis DeTocqueville, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Dickens, who writes, “[The hotel has more] galleries, colonnades, piazzas and passages than I can remember, or the reader would believe.” The building is demolished in 1895.