Chilton Club is established.

Named for Mary Chilton, the only Mayflower passenger known to have moved to Boston, it is founded by a group of Brahmin women. Its purpose is to provide, “[A] genial, graceful retreat in the city for ladies ‘wearied by shopping.” Yet the club allows liquor to be served, cards to be played, and “discrete smoking.” It soon purchases 152 Commonwealth Avenue (287 Dartmouth Street) for its headquarters, and subsequently expands to 150 Commonwealth Avenue. Cleveland Amory calls the club, “Boston’s female Somerset — almost equally archaic and in some respects as austere,” and notes its three entrances – “one for members only off Commonwealth Avenue, one for members and guests off Dartmouth Street, and one for delivery people and servants off an alley.”