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The Parker House, one of Boston’s luxury hotels, has operated on this site since 1856, when it was opened by the innovative hosteller Harvey Parker. Parker introduced the European Plan and started the practice of serving scrod, the fresh white fish catch of the day. The Parker House Roll and the Boston Cream Pie originated here. Its illustrious patrons included Charles Dickens, Ulysses S. Grant, and John F. Kennedy, and members of The Saturday Club, a group of leading 19th century authors including Emerson, Lowell, and Longfellow, gathered here.
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