Burrage (Albert C.) House is built.

Architect: Charles Brigham. Designed in the French Renaissance style and built for copper baron Albert Burrage, the white limestone building is located at 314 Commonwealth Avenue. One of few, New York-style mansions in the Back Bay, A House Beautiful critic subsequently writes, “It has dignity and a certain grandiloquent beauty not to be denied, but it is the beauty of the palace, not the home. . . In this house it is not so much a question of poor taste as a lack of taste.” After Burrage’s widow dies in 1947, the building is converted to doctors’ offices. It becomes home to the Boston Evening Clinic in 1959, is converted to a nursing home in 1990, and then condominiums in 2004. Football player Tom Brady is a subsequent occupant.