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From 1630 to 1673, Zacheus Bosworth, Captain Thomas Clarke, and Lieutenant Richard Cooke lived here on School House Lane. In 1704, John Mico built a mansion on this site, later occupied in turn by Colonel Jacob Wendall, Governor Moses Gill, and the Boylston family. From 1854 to 1886, Harvey D. Parker bought a lot west of School House Lane and built the original Parker House Restaurant and Hotel on the mansion site. Its success led to improvement and enlargement from 1860 to 1886. In 1927, J. R. Whipple Corporation erected this building while continuing to operate the 1886 annex. From 1968 to 1983, the Dunfey family acquired the Parker House and carried out a significant restoration program, after which the hotel was reestablished as the Omni Parker House. In 1996, TRT Holdings, Inc. purchased the Omni hotel chain and began an extensive restoration to return the Omni Parker House to its original grandeur. The Omni Parker House remains the longest continuously operating hotel in the United States.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States