St. Botolph Club is established.

It is founded at a meeting in the Hawthorne Rooms at 2 Park Street. Its purpose is “to promote social intercourse among authors and artists and other gentlemen.” Early members include Daniel Chester French and Rev. Edward Everett Hale (who subsequently resigns when the Women’s Christian Temperance Union protests the club’s use of wines and liquor). The club moves to 85 Boylston Street on May 11, 1880, 2 Newbury Street on June 15, 1887, 115 Commonwealth Avenue in 1941, and to its current location at 199 Commonwealth Avenue in 1972 According to legend, a member’s death went undiscovered for three days, because he appeared to be customarily asleep in his chair and no one wanted to wake him.