Jacob Wirth Restaurant
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Jacob Wirth Buildings | |
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| Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°21′04.2″N 71°03′49.8″W / 42.351167°N 71.063833°WCoordinates: 42°21′04.2″N 71°03′49.8″W / 42.351167°N 71.063833°W |
| Built | 1844 |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Boston Theatre MRA |
| NRHP Reference # | 80000442 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 9, 1980 |
The Jacob Wirth Restaurant is a historic German-American restaurant and bar in Boston, Massachusetts at 31-39 Stuart Street. Founded in 1868, Jacob Wirth is one of the oldest restaurants in Boston.
The Greek Revival building housing the restaurant was constructed in 1844. The German style restaurant was founded in 1868 and is the second oldest continuously operating restaurant in the city after the Union Oyster House.[2] The restaurant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] Jacob Wirth was the first distributor of Anheuser Busch products. The Wirth family and Anheuser family are from the same small town in Germany.
In 2010, Chelsea developer "AJ Simboli Real Estate paid $1.6 million for the 14,000-square-foot eatery,"[3]
Popular Culture
- The Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movie Knight & Day filmed a wedding scene here.[4]
- it was referenced during a meeting in Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly[5]
See also
References
- 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ Jacob Wirth website (accessed June 29, 2008)
- ↑ Developer buys Jacob Wirth, vows to preserve restaurant
- ↑ Loaded Gun: Tom Cruise's Knight & Day filming at Jacob Wirth
- ↑ Movie Reviews-Killing Them Softly
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