The Boston Park Plaza, located near Boston Common and Public Garden, opened as The Statler Hotel in 1927.
Its founder, Ellsworth Milton Statler, envisioned the hotel as “a city within a city” with a barber shop in the basement, carpentry, print, and upholstery shops on the roof, and radios in every room.
It’s now known as the Hilton Boston Park Plaza, after Hilton acquired the property in 2023, and it features a 20,000-square-foot health club and a golf simulator among other amenities.
Throughout the years, A-listers have checked in, including Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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