In addition to 215 hotel rooms and suites designed by Bill Rooney, who also did Boston’s Liberty Hotel, Four Seasons One Dalton will house 160 private residences. With the property's May 2019 opening, Boston joined New York City, San Francisco, Miami, and Beverly Hills as the fifth city with two Four Seasons (the older Boston Four Seasons is located on Boston's Boylston Street). Is there an interesting backstory here? The 724-foot-high, 61-story One Dalton was designed by architect Henry Cobb, the architect behind Boston’s seminal John Hancock Tower (now called 200 Clarendon Street). Just around a curved hallway are three colorful displays of books wrapped in African textiles by the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, each presiding over a cluster of seating. A mosaic by Duke Riley covers every inch of space behind the mahogany check-in desk the swirls of browns and tans are meant to evoke the Great Molasses Flood, which ravaged Boston’s North End in 1919. The glassy skyscraper juts upward from an area that’s persistently under construction-attached residences are still being completed-yet the lobby, with floor-to-ceiling windows, is serene. What will we first notice here? The street for which Four Seasons One Dalton is named is only a couple of blocks long and has only a couple of buildings, so you couldn’t miss the brand-new property if you wanted to-even if it weren’t the third-tallest building in Boston.
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