NPR: Boston's Liberty Hotel: A Captivating Destination

Boston's Liberty Hotel: A Captivating Destination

The common areas of Boston's new Liberty Hotel, formerly the Charles Street Jail, maintain much of the prison's original ironwork. The hotel's restaurant is pictured above.

For nearly 150 years, prisoners dreamed of the day they'd be out of this building. Now tourists are dreaming of they day they'll be in it. Once Boston's infamous Charles Street Jail, it re-opened in September after a five-year, $150 million renovation, as the Liberty Hotel. On yesterday's show we talked to a historian about the jail's past and the project's principal architect about its present and future.

Check out more pics after the jump...

The catwalks once roamed by guards are now roamed by the likes of Mick Jagger, Annette Bening, Meg Ryan and Eva Mendes.

The Liberty Hotel from the outside.

The hotel does include a new building, which affords some nice views of Boston's Charles River.

Photo credit: Kwesi Arthur/Cambridge Seven Associates

Bonus: The Mississippi hotel that became a jail.

Dan Pashman

3:04 PM ET | 11-13-2007 | permalink

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