Hotel Touraine in Boston, Massachusetts, was a residential hotel on the corner of Tremont Street and Boylston Street, near the Boston Common, which operated between 1897 and 1966. The architecture firm of Winslow and Wetherell designed the 11-story building in the Jacobethan style, constructed of "brick and limestone;"U.S. Dept. of the Interior. National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Boston Theatre Multiple Resource Area. 1980. its "baronial" appearance was "patterned inside and out after a 16th-century chateau of the dukes of Touraine."Kenney, Michael. "The secret city." Boston Globe, 24 Jan 1998 It had dining rooms and a circulating library.Manuel D. Lopez. "Books and Beds: Libraries in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Hotels." Journal of Library History (1974-1987), Vol. 9, No. 3 (Jul., 1974)Joseph Winfred Spenceley. A descriptive checklist of the etched & engraved book-plates. Boston: Troutsdale Press, 1905 Owners included Joseph Reed Whipple and George A. Turain.About the farm: an illustrated description of the New Boston Dairy and other industries at Valley View, Muzzey, and Hutchinson farms, which are a part of the supply department of Young's Hotel, Parker House, and Hotel Touraine. Boston: Printed for J. R. Whipple Company, 1910Boston Globe, 16 May 1987
Directly across the street were the clandestine district headquarters of the Boston Communist Party mentioned in Herbert Philbrick's 1952 book "I Led 3 Lives".
Among the guests: explorer Ernest Shackleton, boxer Max Baer, actor Stanley Bell,Boston Globe, 03 Aug 2003 Diamond Jim Brady,"Ask the Globe." Boston Globe, 11 Sep 1996 George Gershwin,Boston Globe, 16 June 1996 Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow,Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow. American Art News, Vol. 20, No. 8 (Dec. 3, 1921), p. 6 Pietro Mascagni,Advertisement for Simplex Piano Player in: Success (magazine), v.6, no.104, 1903 Mitch Miller,Dyer, Richard. "Why it's still fun to sing along with Mitch Miller." Boston Globe, 16 June 1996 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,Letter to Harold J. Laski, June 14, 1922 railroad builder and operator Sir William Cornelius Van Horne,Walter Vaughan, The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (New York: The Century Co., 1920), p. 273. and Henry Bradford Endicott. Events included an exhibition in the 1960s of the Boston Negro Artists Association,Boston Negro Artists Association later became the "Boston Afro-American Artists." Boston Globe, 24 July 1988 and performances by the "Theater Company of Boston."Boston Globe, 18 Apr 1980 The hotel closed in 1966 and became an apartment building."Ask the Globe." Boston Globe, 27 Mar 1988
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Bostonian Society: Photo of construction projects at the corner of Boylston and Tremont Streets, 1896 Photo of construction of Hotel Touraine, Tremont and Boylston Streets, 1897 Boston Public Library. Max Baer looks thoughtful in his room at the Hotel Touraine, photo, 1935