Jacob Wirth’s opens.

Operated by Prussian immigrant Jacob Wirth, it is located initially at 60 Stuart Street (then Eliot Street), moves to 31 – 37 Stuart Street in 1878, and expands into the adjacent building in 1889. The Wirth family lives upstairs. The second oldest restaurant in continued operation in its original location in Boston, it becomes known for its German food and waiters, sawdust-covered floors, and 90-foot-long mahogany bar over which is inscribed suum cuique (“Each his own”). After Wirth’s death in 1892, his family continues to run the restaurant until it is purchased by the Fitzgerald family in 1975. The restaurant closes after a fire on the fourth floor on June 9, 2018. Renovated in hopes of a reopening, the building is struck by fire again on June 24, 2024.