Kirstein (Edward) Business Branch of the Boston Public Library opens.

Architect: Putnam & Cox. Designed in the Georgian Revival style and modeled after the arch of Bulfinch’s Tontine Crescent, it is located at 20 City Hall Avenue. Its construction was supported by businessman Louis Kirstein, in honor of his father. The library is closed as an economy measure and its holdings transferred to the Copley Square main library in 2009.