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Northshore October 2025
Most people wouldn’t get excited about the prospect of staying in a building originally designed to house the incarcerated. However, they may not know the history behind Boston’s Charles Street Jail—now The Liberty, a luxury hotel with award-winning dining in the heart of Beacon Hill.   Built in 1851, the beautiful granite structure is a masterpiece of stone and glass originally designed by architect Gridley James Fox Bryant and Reverend Louis Dwight, a Yale-educated penologist. It was revolutionary at the time for its prison-reform design. Today it’s a Boston Historic Landmark. In the 1970s, after housing some of Boston’
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