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During the summer, the Parker House offers season-long room rentals, and is operated as a bar and restaurant. [16] There are bars on the main floor, the Parker House's back porch and in the facility's basement; the black-and-white-tiled main floor has capacity to hold up to 334 standing patrons, the outdoor back porch has capacity to hold up to 141, and the hardwood-floored basement of the ...
The Omni Parker House bar, The Last Hurrah, was named for Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised chronicling of Mayor Curley's colorful life. [4] John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for Congress at the Parker House in 1946 and also held his bachelor party in the hotel's Press Room there in 1953. [3]
The club began meeting informally at the Albion House in Boston. [1] Publishing agent and lawyer Horatio Woodman first suggested the gatherings among his friends for food and conversation. [2] By 1856, the organization became more structured with a loose set of rules, with monthly meetings held over dinner at the Parker House. [1]
Parker House Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, now known as the Omni Parker House; Parker House (Haven Street, Reading, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed;
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In June 2012, happy hour became legal in Kansas after a 26-year ban. [18] In July 2015, a 25-year happy hour ban was ended in Illinois. [19] As of July 2015, happy hour bans existed in Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont. A bill filed in 2023 in the North Carolina General ...
Aerial view of a 1963 Gables Estates house located at 140 Arvida Parkway is seen on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in Coral Gables, Fla, a month before the demolition started.
Parker died in 1884 at age 80. A funeral was held at the Arlington Street Church; the facade of the Parker House was "heavily draped" in mourning. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. [4] He left $100,000 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [5] providing funds for objects in the museum's Harvey D. Parker Collection. [6]