Omni Parker House Hotel (Boston, Massachusetts)

 hotel, historic landmark

60 School Street in Boston was built 1855 and then demolished and rebuilt in 1927 (there was a small part of the building that stayed open during the rebuild, so they can claim to be operating continually since 1855). The Parker House was home to the Saturday Club, who met regularly in the lobby. Among the Club’s distinguished members were Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Francis Adams, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Charles Dickens stayed at the Parker House for five months in 1867–1868, and first recited and performed "A Christmas Carol" for the Saturday Club; its first public performance was at nearby Tremont Temple.

Parker’s Restaurant at the hotel created the Boston cream pie. Ho Chi Minh claimed to have worked at the Parker House as a baker in 1912 (the hotel is unable to verify this claim). John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for Congress at the Parker House in 1946, and held his bachelor party there in 1953.

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