Quincy House Hotel is built.

It is located on the site of today’s City Hall Plaza (then 31 Brattle Street). The day before the hotel opens, two oxen are led around the city that the hotel owners announce will be served for the opening dinner. Expanded in 1860, hotel guests included Sir Thomas Lipton, Samuel Gompers, John Philip Sousa and George M. Cohan – and a bartender, William Hogarty, who, after breaking a bottle over the head of John L. Sullivan could claim to be the only man who ever knocked the boxer out. The hotel closes on September 14, 1929.