The Jacob Wirth Restaurant was a historic

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restaurant and bar in Boston, Massachusetts at 31-39 Stuart Street. Founded in 1868, Jacob Wirth was the second oldest continuously operated restaurant in Boston when it closed in 2018. The

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building housing the restaurant was constructed in 1844. The German style restaurant was founded in 1868 and was the second oldest continuously operating restaurant in the city after the

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. The restaurant was added to the

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in 1980 and designated a

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in 1977, with interior and exterior protections. Jacob Wirth was the first distributor of

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products. The Wirth family and Anheuser family are from the same small town in Germany. In 2010,

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developer AJ Simboli Real Estate purchased the property for $1.6 million. The restaurant was put up for sale in January 2018 after having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and closed following a fire in June of that year. As recently as October 2021 there was a restoration effort under way to repair fire damage and reopen the restaurant as it had been prior to its closure. In March 2022, Julia Sokol (identified as a manager for the Greater Boston Bar Co.), could reopen by the end of 2022.

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'' filmed a wedding scene here. Jacob Wirth Restaurant was referenced during a meeting in

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