Dickens' Door and Mirror at the Parker House

  • Type: Door

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Object


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Timeline

Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1867/11/19 Charles Dickens Guest Hotel owner Harvey Parker Jr provides Charles Dickens Suite 138-139 (lost) at the Parker House. Dickens will us the third floor chambers as home during his stay in America. Parker House Boston Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America
1867/11/20 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dinner Guest Henry W Longfellow visits Charles Dickens at the Parker House. "Perfectly white in hair and beard, but a remarkably handsome and notable-looking man." - CD Parker House Boston Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America
1867/11/21 George Stillman Hillard Visitor George Hillard, United States Attorney for Massachusetts (which is a very good office - Dickens), visits Charles Dickens at the Parker House. Hillard sends his love to the Dickens family in England. Parker House Boston Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America
1925/11/23 George A Fuller Co General Contractor Whipple Co buys the Parker House and closes much of the hotel to raze it. The 10-story annex on the corner of Chapman Pl and Bosworth St, remains open to guests, allowing the hotel to be called the oldest "continuously operating hotel" in the US. Parker House Boston

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Particulars for Dickens' Door and Mirror at the Parker House:
Object Door a hinged, sliding or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard
Sight Category Object



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