Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers
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For the Park Plaza Hotel, Leeds
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, UK see Park Plaza Hotel Leeds
Park Plaza Hotel Leeds
Park Plaza Hotel Leeds is a tower block in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated in central Leeds on Leeds City Square near Leeds railway station. The hotel tower was built in 1966 after construction began in 1965, it was reclad in 2004 to host the four star Park Plaza Hotel...



The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers is a former Statler Hotel
Statler Hotel
The Statler Hotel company was one of the United States' early chains of hotels catering to traveling businessmen and tourists. It was founded by Ellsworth Milton Statler in Buffalo, New York.- Early ventures :...

 in Boston, Massachusetts built in 1927 by hotel
Hotel
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ier E.M. Statler. A prototype of the grand American
United States
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 hotel, it was called a "city within a city". It was the first hotel in the world to offer in-room radio in every room.

The present-day hotel operates the Castle at Park Plaza in the former Armory of the First Corps of Cadets
Armory of the First Corps of Cadets
Armory of the First Corps of Cadets is an historic armory at 97-105 Arlington Street and 130 Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.The late-Victorian armory was built in 1897 by William Gibbons Preston and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.-References:...

 building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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 in 1977. The building was recently a Smith & Wollensky steakhouse.

In the 1990s Trans World Airlines
Trans World Airlines
Trans World Airlines was an American airline that existed from 1925 until it was bought out by and merged with American Airlines in 2001. It was a major domestic airline in the United States and the main U.S.-based competitor of Pan American World Airways on intercontinental routes from 1946...

 operated a ticket office in the building.

In 2010 the hotel's Swan's Cafe was named one of Yankee Magazine's Best 5 New England Teahouses.

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