The Hotel Waverly is a historic hotel at 1162-1166 Acushnet Avenue in
New Bedford
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. The -story hotel was designed by locally prominent architect
Samuel C. Hunt and built in 1901. The Queen Anne structure was originally designed to house four residential units on the upper floors, and retail space on the ground floor. In 1911 it was repurposed into the Hotel Waverly, with the second floor converted to a cabaret space. It was renamed the Hotel Touraine in 1922, operating as such until the mid-1970s.
The building was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1990.
Completely renovated in 2000, it is now home to low income housing, and known as Talbot Apartments.
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Talbot Apartments, formerly the Hotel Waverly includes current pictures
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Hotel buildings completed in 1901
Buildings and structures in New Bedford, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in New Bedford, Massachusetts
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