Departures of note

Around 1805 Andrew Dexter, Jr. conceived the idea of a large office building with public meeting space and began construction of the Exchange Coffee House in Boston.

He printed massive quantities of worthless bank notes to pay for construction and operation of the building; when his fraud was uncovered, he lost control of the venture and fled the country, later returning from Canada and living in New York while working to repair his finances and settle his debts.