Hotel Alexandra is built.

Architect: Walworth, Caleb & Emil Hammer. Named for the bride of the Prince of Wales and designed in the Ruskinian Gothic style with a sandstone façade, it located at 1761 Washington Street (631 Massachusetts Avenue). One of many residential hotels of the period said to appeal to “The newly wed and nearly dead,” it contains a primitive elevator powered by a piston connected to a city water main. The hotel closes in the 1960s and the building is heavily damaged by a fire in 1993. It is purchased by the Church of Scientology in 2008, subsequently purchased by a developer, and current plans call for it to be converted to residential use.