Ames-Webster House is built.

Architect: Peabody & Stearns. Designed in the French Second Empire style and built for Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer, 24, it is located at 306 Dartmouth Street. Thayer dies before it is completed and the 50-room home with 28 fireplaces is purchased Charles Whitney, then by railroad magnate Frederick Ames in 1880. A four-story tower by Sturgis and Brigham is added 1882. The entrance hall contains stained glass by John La Farge and murals by Benjamin Constant. Architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting later calls it “the most palatial room in the Back Bay.” The house is purchased by engineer Edwin Webster in 1923. It is renovated by CBT Associates and converted to offices in 1971, then into condominiums by Hamady Architects LLC in 2017.