Charles Street Jail opens.

Architect: Gridley Bryant. With Rev. Louis Dwight. Designed in the Italian Palazzo style as the Town Jail (fifth) and House of Correction (sixth), it is located at today’s 215 Charles Street. An octagonal central building with a central rotunda for security monitoring and four radiating wings, the facility incorporates the Auburn system of prison reform dedicated to rehabilitation latest theories in correctional thinking promoted by Dwight’s Prison Discipline Society and provides light and fresh air in every one of its 220 single-occupancy cells. Inmates subsequently include Gennaro Angiulo, Elmer “Trigger” Burke, James Michael Curley, William Lloyd Garrison, Sacco and Vanzetti, women suffragists in 1919, and the crew of a captured German submarine. The building is expanded in 1901 and 1920. The facility remains open until it is replaced by the current jail (sixth) on Nashua Street in 1990.* The original building is converted to a luxury hotel in 2007.*