Girls Latin School (first) opens.

[2/12] It is located in the Girls High School building at 85 West Newton Street. The first college preparatory school for girls in the U.S., its first headmaster is John Tetlow. Graduates include Mary Antin. The school moves to a new building (second) in Fenway in 1907,* to the former Dorchester High School for Girls (third) in Codman Square in 1955. It becomes coeducational and assumes its current name of Boston Latin Academy in 1972, moves to 141 Ipswich Street in 1981 (fourth), and to its current location (fifth) at 205 Townsend Street in September 1991.