Massachusetts State House additions begin to be made.

A rear addition by Isaiah Rogers is built this year. It is replaced by a yellow brick addition by Charles Brigham and John Spofford with vaulted ceilings by Rafael Guastavino in 1897. White marble wings by Chapman, Andrews & Sturgis are added in 1916. The additions subsequently prompt Walter Muir Whitehill to call the building “A very odd fowl, indeed – with a golden topknot, a red breast, white wings, and a yellow tail.”