Algonquin Club is dedicated.

Architect: McKim, Mead & White. Designed in the Classical Revival [Italian Renaissance-Morgan] style, it is located at 217 Commonwealth Avenue. Organized in October 1885 and incorporated on March 9, 1886, the private social club met initially at 164 Marlborough Street. August Martin is the first president. The ceremony is attended by some 2,000 prominent people, and the Boston Globe notes, “the occasion was one surpassing any similar event which has ever taken place in the city, and rivaling in splendor anything in the clubhouse history of New York.” The club first admits women in 1986. It closes in 2018, and the building is purchased by a new club that opens in 2021.*