Downtown Boston Hotel Press

January 3, 2012
NBC Universal website, Life Goes Strong
The Liberty: A Storied Boston Hotel (PDF)
I spent a memorable New Year's Eve weekend in the CLINK.

September 22, 2011
Westchester Magazine
Give me Liberty (PDF)
While there are many nods to the Liberty Hotel's history, thankfully, there's nothing prison-like about the guest accommodations. Spa-like is more apt, with luxurious bathrooms with separate deep bathtubs and rainfall showerheads.

March 19, 2011
The Wall Street Journal
Culture Pop (PDF)
If jail is bad why does this prison-turned-luxury hotel look so good?

February 2011
Brides
Honeymoon – Celebrity Penthouses (PDF)
Even Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees couldn’t resist Beantown’s Ebersol Suite at The Liberty Hotel.

January 2011
Continental
Model Buildings (PDF)
From prison to model building, the Liberty Hotel is noted for its exceptional style and design. The building’s uniqueness helps set the tone and captivate guests.

October 2010
Travel + Leisure
World’s Strangest Prisons (PDF)
What cage is three stories high, rotates, and was designed for human beings, not rats?

July 20, 2010
Haute Living
Freedom and Fabulous for All (PDF)
Once upon a time, a jailhouse was built on Charles Street. Nearly two centuries later, the greatest transformation of all time was hatched: the facelift from an infamous slammer into the opulent Liberty Hotel.

July 3, 2010
Wall Street Journal
Take Monday Off (PDF)
Visiting Boston after the 4th means catching one of the quietest weeks of the summer- and sidestepping most of the holiday weekend’s Harborfest crowds.

July 1, 2010
Durrah
Summer In The City (PDF)
When one thinks of a hotel, the image of a prison does not typically spring to mind- that is, unless one thinks of the Liberty Hotel.

June 30, 2010
Vanity Fair
Escape to the Liberty Hotel in Boston (PDF)
City dwellers don’t always yearn to escape to the beach or countryside.

June 1, 2010
Shape
Fittest Cities (PDF)
Commuters in Beantown are twice as likely to use public transportation than other cities’ denizens , so they spend more time walking and less time trapped in traffic.

May 25, 2010
The New York Times
Just Steps From The Room (PDF)
At most hotels, the weak economy of the last year and a half has meant one thing- fewer amenities.

May 4, 2010
The Wall Street Journal
Entrepreneurs Make Use of Odd Spaces (PDF)
Properties with a past provide unique marketing opportunities; jails transform into hotels, churches into restaurants.

April 14, 2010
MSNBC
Hotels Worth Your Tax Refund (PDF)
What wows ‘em at Boston’s Liberty Hotel- formerly the Charles Street Jail-is the lobby, ringed by catwalks and capped by a 90 foot-high wooden cupola.

April 10, 2010
Better Homes and Gardens
Return to Glory (PDF)
Restored historic hotels immerse visitors in bygone glamour and intrigue.

February 16, 2010
Forbes
The Most Unusual Hotels in America (PDF)
Rest your head in one of these quirky spots, and you’re likely to have an atypical stay.

February 14, 2010
The Los Angeles Times
Surrender to Love in Lockups-Turned-Hotels (PDF)
Expect a secure room and some reminders of the lodgings’ past, plus some romantic deals at some of them.

November 29, 2009
New York Post
50 States: Massachusetts (PDF)
The Wonderland Greyhound Park wasn’t at all as I’d remembered it. Thirty years ago, when my grandfather and I took the T from Boston to the track out in the blue-collar suburb of Revere, it had seemed such an exotic adventure.

September 29, 2009
AM New York
Your Next Trip? Try Prison (PDF)
No one pays money to spend the night in jail. Then again, most prisons aren’t Boston’s Liberty Hotel.

September 2009
New York Times Style Magazine
Creative Loafing (PDF)
Bye-bye Bentley – the latest hotel amenity on wheels is the bicycle.

April/May 2009
Modern Bride
Hotels With a Past (PDF)
The Liberty Hotel, Boston. This ultrachic urban retreat doesn’t hide its former life as a jail, from the iron work in the lobby to preserved cells within the cleverly named Clink restaurant. Plus, you won’t mind being confined to the swank rooms.

April 2009
United Hemispheres
Odd Lodging (PDF)
The Liberty Hotel, Boston Rooms range from $375 to $875 at this luxury lodging,leaving just enough money for a trip to CLINK, its ritzy restaurant where you can eat in a 19th- century cell.

March 23, 2009
The Leather District Gourmet
Cochon 555 - Chef Joseph Margate - CLINK (PDF)
When bad-boy-chef-turned-doting-dad-travel-show-host Anthony Bourdain says the roast pig he had in the Philippines was "the best ever" , that’s saying something. Bourdain makes much of his legendary love of the pig. So, never mind the other stellar chefs Margate is up against, the Philippine-born chef also has to live up to THAT? Talk about pressure.

August 2008
Conde Nast Traveler
Where to Stay (PDF)
Within months of leaving the prison in Los Angeles, Paris Hilton was back in jail. This time the celebutante went cheerfully, and stayed in considerable style. For the prison in question is the most happening luxury hotel in Boston. The Liberty Hotel is in the city’s old Charles Street Jail, an imposing granite building dating from 1851.

April 2008
National Geographic Traveler
Luxury Lockdown (PDF)
For the law-abiding foils who’ve always wondered what incarceration feels like, renovated historic institutions are just what the warden ordered. That curious, behind-bars mystique can be bought by the night-along with room service and flat-screen TVs. In Boston, Beacon Hill’s Charles Street Jail, which once held the Boston Strangler and Malcolm X, recently underwent a $150 million renovation and is now the Liberty Hotel, boasting 300 rooms with oversized windows, touchpad phones, and martini shakers.

March 2008
Forbes Life
Travel (PDF)
In its 139-year history, Boston’s Charles Street Jail housed is share of notable inmates; suffragettes who picketed Woodrow Wilson in favor of the 19th Amendment, a German U-boat captain who killed himself with shards from his own sunglasses, even Frank Abagnale, Jr, - the 1060s con artist played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Film Catch Me If You Can.

January/February 2008
Departures
Checking In (PDF)
Boston believes in honoring its history (sometimes, In fact, slavishly so). Given that, it comes as no surprise that two “new” hotels in the city both have captivating back stories. The just - opened Liberty and the recently christened Taj offer guests distinct- but equally chic-experiences, each celebrating a cherished past in present-day style.

January 22, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
Boston's Beacon Hill (PDF)
As a sleek, modern development pops up along the skyline, savor Boston’s cobblestone past in one of its oldest and most walkable neighborhoods, Beacon Hill. Stroll along the picturesque Charles Street lined with independent antique shops, bookstores, boutiques, and restaurants.

December 23, 2007
The New York Times
Check In/Check Out (PDF)
The completion of the Charles Street Jail in 1851 was a milestone of design bringing the architect Gridley James Fox Bryant’s stately, roughhewn granite style to the edge of the Charles River. The jail closed in 1990 and has been transformed into a luxury hotel after a $150 million restoration.

September 4, 2007
The Boston Globe
Hotel Aims to Capivate (PDF)
One restaurant is called Clink. Another is Scampo, Italian for “escape”. The bar is name Alibi. “You’ll know this was a jail”, developer Richard L. Friedman promised last year, when he was in the middle of converting the 156-year-ol Charles Street Jail into the Liberty Hotel.

August 30, 2007
The New York Times
Luxury Living, Where Once the Residents Were Felons (PDF)
The old Charles Street Jail in Boston will be reborn next week as the luxurious Liberty Hotel. And while the 100 – foot ceiling and arched windows at the entrance of the building, above right, may be impressive, there’s no chance of anyone forgetting its roots, or what Richard L. Friedman, the Boston developer responsible for reinventing the jail, likes to call it “jailness”.