Boston Public Library (second) is dedicated.

Architect: Charles Kirby. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style and built of red brick and sandstone, it is located on the current site of the Colonial Theatre at today’s 106 Boylston Street (then 55 Boylston Street). The building opens with a parade from City Hall to Boylston Street. The building contains two first-floor reading rooms, the larger one named for Joshua Bates. The library moves to a new building (third) on Boylston Street in 1895.* The original building is used briefly as a concert hall and beer garden and demolished to make way for construction of a theater and office building in 1900.*