Kilachand Hall (Boston, Massachusetts)

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Kilachand Hall is a dorm for Boston University Students. It was built as The Sheraton Hotel. When it was purchased by Ernest Henderson and Robert Moore in the late 1930s, it had a huge lighted sign saying "Hotel Sheraton" on top. It was too expensive to change, so they instead decided to name their entire chain Sheraton Hotels, after this property.. It was sold in 1950 and renamed the Shelton Hotel, because that name change involved changing only two letters on the same sign. BU purchased the property in 1954 and converted it to a dorm, Shelton Hall. American playwright Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill died in 401 of the Shelton Hotel on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. There is now a urban legend perpetuated by students that O'Neill's spirit haunts the room and dormitory. He was interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain Massachusetts. O'Neill's final words were reportedly "Born in a hotel room, and Goddammit, died in one!"

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