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The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people.It is the deadliest nightclub fire in history and the third-deadliest single-building fire (after the September 11 attacks and Iroquois Theatre fire).
The 1978 Blackfriars Massacre, [1] [2] also known as the Blackfriars murders, [3] is an unsolved Irish Mob and/or Italian-American Mafia massacre that occurred on 28 June 1978, in the Blackfriars Pub in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts.
The three-story house was built in several stages between 1816 and 1875. Now a National Historic Landmark , it was one of the first houses built of granite in the city, and was designed by Alexander Parris for David Sears , a prominent merchant, philanthropist, and landowner.
The Pickwick Club collapse occurred in Boston, Massachusetts United States on July 4, 1925. It killed 44 people, making it the deadliest building collapse in Boston's history and the second deadliest accident in Boston (behind the Summer Street Bridge disaster ) at that time.
Chilton Club Chilton Club. The Chilton Club is a private social club established in 1910, in the Back Bay area of Boston, Massachusetts. [1] Founded by Pauline Revere Thayer, [2] the club was intended in part as a counterpoint to the Mayflower Club. The club was named after Mary Chilton because she had been the first woman to step out of the ...
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.
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The Algonquin Club (2008) at 217 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston . The Algonquin Club of Boston, presently known as The 'Quin House, [1] is a private social club in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1886. Originally a business-themed gentlemen's club, it is now open to men and women of all races, religions, and nationalities.