Boston - Omni Parker House

Boston - Omni Parker House. Originally uploaded by wallyg.

wallyg said "Locted in downtown Boston on the Freedom Trail, the Omni Parker House is America’s longest continuously operating luxury hotel. Opened in 1855, the hotel currently has 551 rooms and suites that underwent an $80 million renovation completed in 2000.

The Parker House is best known for having invented American foods such as Boston cream pie and the Parker House roll, and for having coined the term "scrod".

Many well-known people have worked at the Parker House, including Ho Chi Minh who was a baker in the bakeshop from from 1911 to 1913, Malcolm X who was a busboy in the early 1940's, and Emeril Lagasse ..."