Hotel Touraine opens.

Architect: Winslow & Wetherell. Designed in the Jacobethan style and modeled after the Chateau de Blois in Touraine, France, it is located on the former site of the home of John Quincy Adams and the former site of the Hotel Boylston at today’s 62 Boylston Street. For a time, it is owned by the J.R. Whipple Company, which also owned the Parker House and Young’s Hotel. Guests include presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, McKinley, and Coolidge, Enrico Caruso, and Adm. George Dewey. The hotel closes in September 1966, and is converted to a residential building in 1970.*