
This is the main doorway of the Parker House on School Street. The 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.
The Parker House is also notable as the first Boston hotel to have hot and cold running water, and an elevator. It is also notable 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.