Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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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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