Nahant Hotel opens.

It is operated by Thomas Handasyd Perkins, who, with other wealthy Bostonians, had built summer home in the seaside community, turning it into a resort community, which Thomas Gold Appleton dubs, “Cold Roast Boston.” The hotel, subsequently owned by Henry Cabot Lodge, closes and burns to the subsequently closes and burns to the ground (“as empty mortgaged buildings sometime do,” wrote Lodge) on September 12, 1861. The site is later used for a summer residence built by Lodge and is today the site of a Marine Biological Center operated by Northeastern University.