Antique Ritz Carlton Hotel Boston Mass Key Brass

Description: This is the brass attachment to an old key from the now closed Ritz Carlton Hotel which is now called the Newbury. Note the address if someone would find the key on the other side. See Photos. Great little piece of Boston history. Would look great on anyone’s keys as very well made. Cannot find another like it on the internet. My mother gave this to me over 30 years ago when my wife and I moved to Boston area. Just found in a drawer. My mom got it at an estate sale on the main line outside Philadelphia. This is not a copy but an original. Probably from sometime between 1926 to 1950’s. There is some writing under Boston Mass but cannot make out. The former Ritz-Carlton in Boston, 2004 In October 1926, 29-year-old Edward N. Wyner bought a third-acre parcel at the corner of Arlington and Newbury streets and formed a partnership called The Ritz-Arlington Trust with his father, George, and business associate, John S. Slater. The trust sold $5.8 million of bonds to finance the construction of an apartment building to be called the Mayflower. The 18-story, 201-foot (61 m) brick building, designed by Strickland, Blodget & Law Architects, was far taller than anything else along Newbury Street at the time. Construction had started on the second floor when Wyner was persuaded by then-Mayor James Michael Curley to make the Mayflower a world-class, 300-room Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which opened May 19, 1927. Room rates were $5 to $15 per night; $40 per night for suites. After a hugely successful opening, the stock market crash of 1929 and ensuing Depression brought financial difficulties. The Wyner family funded the hotel's operating losses during the early 1930s, although the interest on the bonds went unpaid. Still in 1933, when only 30 guests were registered in the hotel, Wyner turned on the lights in every guest room to give the appearance that the hotel was full. The unpaid interest on the bonds dissuaded many from trying to buy the hotel. But Cabot, Cabot & Forbes principal Gerald F. Blakeley Jr. was interested. After more than a year of legal work, Hale and Dorr succeeded at clearing the bond obligations, and in October 1964 Blakeley and associates Paul Hellmuth and Charles Spaulding acquired the Ritz-Carlton Boston for $5.8 million. "Out of the 20 years I owned it, it made money three years. The other years it broke even, but from a public relations standpoint for CC&F, it was a tremendous asset," said Blakeley, who constructed a 19-story addition to the hotel in 1981, which included more function space, 80 more guest rooms, and 52 condominiums.[16]

Price: 85 USD

Location: Waban, Massachusetts

End Time: 2025-01-12T00:52:15.000Z

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