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restaurant and bar, which played host to numerous
Kennedy family campaign meetings—was renovated and now features regular art shows and entertainment by artists and musicians. In 2011, the Kimball celebrated its 100th anniversary on St. Patrick's Day, 2011. As of 2012, the Kimball Towers is primarily
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in the 1930s, WBZ's standard broadcast identification was, "WBZ-AM, Hotel
Kimball, Springfield" and later "WBZA-AM & FM, Hotel Kimball, Springfield." The radio station's headquarters in The Hotel Kimball lured the day's most popular entertainers to Springfield—a mid-sized city, although from the
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hotels like the
Kimball were torn down in the United States. In 1983, the Kimball was spared the wrecking ball by the National Register of Historic Places. Soon after, two developers purchased it to develop condominiums. Amidst the renovation of the 309-room Hotel Kimball into the 132-room Kimball
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Cobb's exterior design for the Hotel
Kimball included a rusticated stone base; arched window openings with stone voussoirs; vertical stone banding; and a detailed cornice profile. The interior featured grand function rooms, including a ballroom and lounge, as well as ample guest accommodations. On
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Kimball coat-of-arms." Built in what was the affluent residential neighborhood of Chestnut and Bridge Streets, the Kimball offered 309 rooms, a dining-room capacity for 450, a
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During the first decade of the twentieth century, Springfield—at the time one of the United States' wealthiest cities—had a surfeit of wealthy travelers but only one first-class hotel, (i.e. the Hotel Worthy, constructed in the nineteenth century.) In 1910, wealthy businessman
William Kimball
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Towers, its developers filed for bankruptcy. Later they were imprisoned for a different development. For nearly a decade thereafter, the
Kimball Towers were managed by the
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