Amory-Ticknor House is built.

Architect: Charles Bulfinch. Designed in the Federal style and built for Thomas Amory, it is located at today’s 9 Park Street. The largest house in Boston at the time, it comes to be called “Amory’s Folly” when the owner goes bankrupt just before the house is finished. Too expensive to sell, the building is divided into four units in 1806, the first “luxury apartments” in Boston, one of them occupied by Lafayette during his visit in 1824. Harvard historian George Ticknor purchases that apartment in 1830, and his second-floor library of some 18,000 volumes is the largest private library in the U.S. at the time. The building is renovated in 1884. Its lower floors currently house a restaurant, television studio, and Dunkin’ Donuts.