Joy (Benjamin) House is built.

[1800, 1802, 1805-MLS] Architect: Charles Bulfinch. It is located at 29 – 31 Chestnut Street. Later the Charles Codman House, it is subsequently purchased by a theater manager. Edwin Booth stays here while performing in Boston at the same time that his brother, John Wilkes Booth, assassinates President Abraham Lincoln in Washington in 1865. Booth purchases the house in 1883 and sells it in 1887. After his death in New York on June 7, 1893, Booth is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.