Tavern Club is established.

It is located initially in rented rooms at 1 Park Square. Reputed to have been created for proper Bostonians with artistic sensibilities, its first president is William Dean Howells. The club purchases and moves to its headquarters at 4 Boylston Place in 1887. In 1933, Fortune calls it, “The city’s pleasantest male retreat, where the more continentally minded members of Boston’s great families hobnob with occasional Chicago poets in an atmosphere of canary-colored waistcoats, first names, and a round oak table.” The club house is damaged by fire in 1957, but subsequently rebuilt and restored.