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The Hanover Inn at Dartmouth, known as “Dartmouth’s front door,” will complete the last phase of its renovation next week with the opening of the Inn’s new restaurant, PINE. “We are delighted to open the doors to PINE, which will …

The hulking granite building overlooking the Charles River housed some of this city’s most notorious criminals for more than a century, but it will soon provide luxury accommodations for some of the most well-heeled visitors. The transformation of the Charles …

Once a historic prison, the newly designed Liberty Hotel in Boston melds 19th century architecture with contemporary design that honors the past New four-star hotels aren’t necessarily big news. But when one opens in a historical space, say, a 19th …

With the Clink restaurant and Alibi bar, the Liberty is guilty of lacking subtlety “Just make it jail-like.” Architect Gary Johnson of the firm Cambridge Seven Associates says that was the word from the National Park Service, spoken when he …

Listen to a podcast by C7A Principal Gary Johnson about the history of the Charles Street Jail and its transformation into The Liberty Hotel. Description The former Charles Street Jail, a national historic landmark, has been transformed into a new …

Along with Braintree officials ranging fom the Mayor and Town Council President to the Fire Chief, and several local veterans, Tuesday’s grand opening ceremony for the new Hyatt Place also featured a long row of other important faces – dozens …

More than a century later, Boston’s first skyscraper becomes the Ames hotel. More than 120 years ago, Frederick Lothrop Ames, grandson of the founder of the successful Ames Shovel Works, financed the construction of the Ames Building in downtown Boston, …

The Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA A late-20th-century design of schematically stacked boxes means rooms here—many of which overlook the Charles River—are larger than in landlocked B&Bs deeper inside Cambridge. Students, professors, and music aficionados all flock to the hotel’s Regattabar, …

Boston is gearing up for its first new hotel opening of 2012, and there’s a lot of new hitting the scene at 200 Stuart St. Not since the Mandarin Oriental Boston opened in Back Bay has there been such buzz …

Flexible in use and sensitive to its residential surroundings, the Mayor Sheila Doyle Russell Youth and Community Center serves an eclectic mix of users on three levels — a lower level housing private lounge and banquet space for the local …