Roxbury Branch Library (first) opens.

Architect: Nathaniel Bradlee. Originally the Fellowes Athenaeum, it is located at 46 Millmont Street. The building was initially constructed on Bartlett Street, but before it was completed the Metropolitan Horse Railroad Company purchased the adjacent property as a site for its stables. According to Walter Muir Whitehill, “The prospect of a library hemmed in by stables and perfumed by horse manure proved so intolerable” that the site was sold to the railroad and library is rebuilt on Millmont Street. The first branch library in Roxbury, its construction is supported by a bequest from Caleb Fellowes, a Gloucester sea captain who lived briefly in Roxbury. The library is replaced by the Dudley Branch Library in 1978.* The original building is now the home of the Refuge Church of Christ.