Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Oblast: Arhitektura
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The Omni Parker house


Boston, 2008. godine na 52. strane, bogato ilustrovano.


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The Omni Parker House is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1855. The current hotel structure dates to 1927. Located at the corner of School Street and Tremont, not far from the seat of the Massachusetts state government, the hotel has long been a rendezvous for politicians. The Omni Parker House is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Parker House Hotel was established by Harvey D. Parker and opened on October 8, 1855. Additions and alterations were made to the original building starting only five years after its opening.

The hotel was home to the Saturday Club, which met on the fourth Saturday of every month, except during July, August, and September. Among the Saturday Club’s nineteenth-century members were poet, essayist, and preeminent transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and The Atlantic Monthly editor James Russell Lowell, novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, poets John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, diplomat Charles Francis Adams, historian Francis Parkman, and sage-about-town Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Charles Dickens resided in the Parker House for five months in 1867–1868 in his own apartments; he first recited and performed `A Christmas Carol` for the Saturday Club at the Parker House, then again for the adoring public at nearby Tremont Temple. The Parker House currently holds possession of the door to Dickens` guest room when he stayed in 1867 and the mirror used by him for rehearsals.