The one hundred and seventy-room Tremont House,…

October 1829 CE

The one hundred and seventy-room Tremont House, the first modern hotel in the U.S., opens in Boston on October 16, 1829, setting a new international standard for hotel amenities with its proportionately high square footage devoted to such gas-illuminated public spaces as its two hundred-seat dining room featuring French cuisine and its reading room stocked with international newspapers.

A four-story, granite-faced, neoclassical building, located at the corner of Tremont and Beacon Streets, with its main entrance on Tremont, its designer is Isaiah Rogers.

The innovative private single and double bedrooms (a vast improvement over the prevailing custom of travelers having to share rooms with one or more strangers) feature door locks, room service, water closets, and free soap.

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