Old City Hall (fifth) is dedicated.

Architect: Bryant &. Gilman. Designed in the French Second Empire style, it is built on the former foundation of Suffolk County Court House (later Johnson Hall) and located at 45 School Street. The cornerstone was laid on December 22, 1862. Mayor Frederick Lincoln Jr. presides at the dedication and some 20,000 people attend the event. The fictional version of the building in Edwin O’Connor’s his novel The Last Hurrah is described as “A lunatic pile of a building: a great, grim resolutely ugly dust-catcher.” The building is replaced by the New City Hall in 1969,* and the original is converted to commercial use by Anderson, Notter Architects in 1971.*