Welcome to The Liberty, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Boston

Did you know?

• Once home to some of Boston’s legendary inmates, now the building is home to a more enthusiastic and appreciative audience. Within the main building, there are 18 guest rooms, as well as meeting rooms, a grand ballroom and a restaurant and bar.  Across “The Yard” and adjacent to a historical gallery of images and tales from the previous 150 years, a 16-story tower houses 280 guest rooms, many with expansive views of Boston.
  

Interior Design

• Renovated in 2007, the interior design reflects a passionate commitment to authenticity while a more playful attitude defines its day-to-day style. The jail cells present in the aptly-named restaurant, CLINK, are now cozy nooks for dining and do not disturb signs are wisely worded “solitary.”

Preservation

• In 1991, Massachusetts General Hospital acquired the obsolete property and sought proposals for its reuse, requiring that significant elements of the building be preserved.

Purchase

• In 2001, Carpenter & Company was designated the developer of the project and entered into a lease agreement with MGH for the land and the jail itself.

Cupola

• Bryant had initially drafted a dramatic cupola, designed to bring further light and air into the rotunda. Unfortunately, it was a focal point that, at the time of the building’s construction, was reduced in size to save money. In 1949, it was removed altogether. In one of many restoration decisions, the cupola was painstakingly rebuilt based on Bryant’s original design.

Historic Landmark

• The transformation of the site into a hotel is the work of a team of designers and architects collaborating with historians and conservationists from the Massachusetts Historical Commission, the Boston Landmarks Commission, the National Park Service and the Boston Redevelopment Authority to ensure that the end result is a careful balance between preservation and dynamic new use. This National Historic Landmark building is one of the country’s most stunning and inspired “reuse” developments and sits at the foot of Boston’s historic Beacon Hill neighborhood overlooking the Charles River and the city skyline.

The Liberty Hotel has a Destination Fee of $25 per night which includes the following:

• Wireless Internet Access
• 24-Hour Fitness Facility with Chilled Towels and Fresh Apples
• Sparkling Wine Welcome Beverage at Check In
• Morning Coffee Station in Lobby
• Priority Access to Guest-Only Catwalk lounge, and Alibi Bar
• Daily Newspapers in Lobby
• Fresh Apples in Lobby
• Bicycle Rental (seasonal)
• Kayak Rental (seasonal)
• Shoe Shine Service
• Entrance to all Liberty Affairs, including:
• Major Mondays (live blues music at The Liberty Bar)
• Gallery Night Tuesdays (art exhibition in the lobby)
• Whole Note Wednesdays (live jazz music at The Liberty Bar)
• Yappier Hour (seasonal “canines and cocktails” mix-and-mingle event in The Yard)
• Fashionably LATE Thursdays (Thursday night Fashion show featuring local Boston designers)
• Beat Weekends (live sounds from Boston’s top DJs at The Liberty Bar on Friday and Saturday nights)
• Saturday morning yoga classes taught by instructors from Equinox