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Jacob Wirth Restaurant

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Location
  
Boston, Massachusetts

Architect
  
Multiple

MPS
  
Boston Theatre MRA

Built
  
1844

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival

NRHP Reference #
  
80000442

Jacob Wirth Restaurant

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. The restaurant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and designated a Boston Landmark in 1977. 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,"

  • The Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movie Knight and Day filmed a wedding scene here.
  • it was referenced during a meeting in Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly
  • References

    Jacob Wirth Restaurant Wikipedia