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Boston Hotel Buckminster
Boston Hotel Buckminster (formerly Hotel Buckminster and briefly Hotel St. George) is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located on the triangular intersection of Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue in Kenmore Square. It is, along with the Hotel Commonwealth, one of two hotels located within one block of Fenway Park. Construction The hotel, built in 1897, was designed for Arnold A. Rand by Boston architects Winslow & Wetherell, architects of many large hotels and office buildings. At the time of its construction, the Hotel Buckminster was one of the first hotels in Boston and the largest building in Kenmore Square. Black Sox Scandal On September 19, 1919, on a day that the Chicago White Sox defeated the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park 3–2, bookmaker and gambler Joseph "Sport" Sullivan went to the Hotel Buckminster room of Arnold "Chick" Gandil, first baseman for the Chicago White Sox. There they conspired to fix the 1919 World Series, which was to take place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
