Hotel

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Hotel entrance to the Custom House tower. Click here to see another view of the Custom House.

XV Beacon Street Hotel

Small boutique hotel on Beacon Street. I think a small hotel calling itself a "boutique hotel" is just another way of saying "we're really expensive and have small rooms."

Parker House

The Omni Parker House is the oldest continually functioning hotel in America (1855) and is one of only two hotels on the Freedom Trail. The Parker House is noted for its Parker House rolls and Boston Cream Pie, the official dessert of Massachusetts. It is currently undergoing major renovations to the outside of the building, which is sheathed entirely in scaffolding and netting.

The Parker House is also notable as the first Boston hotel to have hot and cold running water, and an elevator; for having Ho Chi Minh work there as a busboy, and Malcom X as a waiter. Notable vistors to the hotel have included English writer Charles Dickens, and the not so notable John Wilkes Boothe. Boothe stayed at the hotel the week before assasinating President Lincoln.

I like the ambience of the dining room and bar: it's all dark wood and comfortable chairs that can make you forget you are in the center of a busy city.

Triptych

Three views of the Intercontinental Hotel on the Boston waterfront.

Light & Shadows

Interplay of light and shadows on brick building next to the Intercontinental Hotel.

Viewed from other end of walkway.

View of glass facade of the Intercontinental Hotel.