Fenway Studios opens.

Architect: Parker, Thomas & Rice. Designed in the Arts & Crafts/Beaux Arts style, it is located at 30 Ipswich Street. The oldest artist live/work space in continued operation in the U.S., it is built by members of the Copley Society and St. Botolph Club after a fire destroyed the Harcourt Studios. The building houses 46 studios with 12-foot ceilings and northern light. Residents include Joseph DeCamp, Philip Hale, William McGregor Paxton, Lilla Cabot Perry, John Singer Sargent, Edmund Tarbell, and Katherine Lane Weems. The Boston Globe subsequently writes, “Late suppers and noisy revelers, associated from long since with studio life, are here rare. It is a Boston atmosphere that one finds in the building, of respectability and quiet, yet an atmosphere of art withal.” The building becomes a non-profit, limited-equity, artist-owned cooperative in 1981 and is renovated in 1982.