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The Algonquin Club of Boston was founded by a group, including General Charles Taylor. [2] [3] Its clubhouse on Commonwealth Avenue was designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1888, and was soon called "the finest and most perfectly appointed club-house in America" [4] and more recently the "most grandiose" of Boston's clubs.
The club was on the other side and a little south of where the Boston Tea Party took place (old Griffin's Wharf) in 1773. Cicerone's involvement in the club would be short lived and he would soon be replaced by Jack Burke. Burke and Harry Booras along with Peter Booras as General Manager would run The Channel throughout its heyday of the 1980s.
In the 1970s, under the glow of the historic Citgo sign, Kenmore Square, Storyville was located near The Rathskeller, Where It’s At, Lucifer’s, and Psychedelic Supermarket. [ 51 ] In 1983 and 1984, at 645 Beacon Street , [ 52 ] Storyville hosted performers such as the Del Fuegos , [ 53 ] Bush Tetras , [ 54 ] Til Tuesday , Barrence Whitfield ...
In 1983, Campus, a gay club, was built on a site previously occupied by Simeone's Restaurant. In 1985, the club was expanded under the moniker of Manray and its dance nights included a Campus event along with goth, new wave, industrial, and fetish nights. The club billed itself as an "art bar", and often featured gallery shows by local artists ...
The Union Club of Boston, founded in 1863, is one of the oldest gentlemen's clubs in the United States. It is located on Beacon Hill , adjacent to the Massachusetts State House . The clubhouse at No. 7 and No. 8 Park Street was originally the homes of John Amory Lowell (#7), and Abbott Lawrence (#8). [ 1 ]
The College Club of Boston; Copley Society of Art; H. Harvard Club of Boston; M. Massachusetts Bicycle Club; Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Massachusetts) N.
The "locus of boston rock and roll," [8] the Rat was noted for the artists who performed there before their commercial breakthroughs and the local bands and scenes it helped to develop. In 1976, the album Live at The Rat was released; it documented the music of the time as well as the importance of the club in the development of Boston rock and ...
Robbins House—Built circa 1790–1800; home of Caesar Robbins, a formerly enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War veteran. In 1870–71, the house was moved to Bedford Street, near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. In 2011 it was moved to its present site at 320 Monument Street, across from the Old North Bridge and the Old Manse. Lexington