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and Ann Beha Architects, and reopened in the summer of 2007 as a 300-room luxury hotel with a number of high-end bars and restaurants. The Liberty Hotel, as it is now known, has retained much of the building's historic structure, including the famed rotunda. A 16-story guest room addition during
665:. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Dennis J. KEARNEY et al., Defendants, Appellees, Boston City Councillors, Defendants, Appellants. No. 78-1216. United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit. Argued June 9, 1978. Decided June 15, 1978. 1279: 322:. The wings allowed segregation of prisoners by sex and category of offense, and thirty arched windows, each 33 feet high, provided ventilation and natural light. The original jail contained 220 granite cells, each 8 by 10 feet (2.4 m × 3.0 m). 1587: 1582: 1577: 1210: 1275: 1255: 1250: 1245: 1215: 1265: 1235: 1137: 467: 1270: 1260: 1240: 1220: 1609: 1230: 1225: 1694: 1614: 1562: 1442: 1396: 1329: 1492: 1467: 1427: 1355: 1324: 1303: 1572: 1508: 1477: 1432: 1417: 1412: 396:
ruled that, because of overcrowding, the jail violated the constitutional rights of the prisoners housed there. Nonetheless, the prison did not close until 1990. On Memorial Day of that year, prisoners were moved to the new
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which had been built in 1822. Normally jails of this sort were county institutions, but, since Boston, then and now, dominates
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construction was designed to approximate the existing structure around it.
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Over the years, the jail housed a number of famous inmates including
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The former Charles Street Jail building is now owned by
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Aerial view of Suffolk County jail, late 20th century
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Liberty Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Charles Street Jail is located in Boston
Charles Street Jail is located in Massachusetts
Charles Street Jail is located in the United States
Boston, Massachusetts
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Charles Street
Boston
Massachusetts

Henry McIntyre

Mayor
Martin Brimmer
Leverett Street Jail
Suffolk County
Gridley James Fox Bryant
Louis Dwight
Auburn Plan
Quincy granite
rotunda
atrium
John White Webster
James Michael Curley
Malcolm X
Sacco and Vanzetti
Josephine Collins

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