Featured Hotels and Inns
The Liberty Hotel
Does staying overnight at a jail sound appealing? How about if it had been converted into one of Boston?s newest luxury hotels? Boston?s Liberty Hotel?s building was once the Charles Street Jail and housed such notorious figures as Sacco and Venzetti, a pair of Italian Immigrants sentenced to death for armed robbery and murder in one of the nation?s most controversial trials, and former Boston Mayor James Michael Curley after he was found guilty for taking a civil service exam for a friend.
The granite building, finally closed as a jail in 1990 because its living conditions had been found unfit, reopened in 2007 as a hotel. The Beacon Hill-area hotel retains its classic architecture, including its expansive, arched windows and its rotunda. You can eat among the jail cell bars at the hotel?s restaurant Clink, or sip fine Champagne at its lobby bar.
Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast
You?ve heard the children?s rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks ?" If you book early enough, you can stay at the Fall River home where the sensational murder took place. Whether Lizzie killed her parents on Aug. 4, 1892, or not is uncertain. She was acquitted by a court of law, but convicted by popular opinion. The bed and breakfast rents out two two-bedroom suites and four guest rooms. Tours are offered daily.
Concord?s Colonial Inn
The Colonial Inn, located in the center of Concord, not only has historical significance, but its Room 24 is said to be haunted. In 1966, a newlywed staying in the room reported waking up to a ?shadowy mass in the shape of a standing figure.? The inn?s historical significance dates back to 1775 when arms and provisions were stored in one of the inn?s original buildings while British troops marched from Boston to Concord to seize the settlers? munitions. The colonists fought back, and America?s Revolutionary War began. The war eventually culminated in the creation of the United States of America. Noted author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau also lived at what is now the inn in the early 1800s.
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