Hotel Touraine (1897-1966) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a residential hotel on the corner of Tremont Street and Boylston Street, near the Boston Common. The architecture firm of Winslow and Wetherell designed the 11-story building in the Jacobethan style, constructed of "brick and limestone;"[1] its "baronial" appearance was "patterned inside and out after a 16th-century chateau of the dukes of Touraine."[2] It had dining rooms and a circulating library.[3][4] Owners included Joseph Reed Whipple and George A. Turain.[5][6]
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".
^Kenney, Michael. "The secret city." Boston Globe, 24 Jan 1998
^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
^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, 1910
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