I first encountered the Liberty Hotel when visiting colleges in Boston. My aunt had taken me and gushed about how cool the hotel was in the weeks leading up to the trip. The Liberty Hotel had once been the Charles Street Jail, built in 1925 by architect Gridley James Fox Bryant, but was converted into a luxury hotel in the early 2000s. Incorporating its origin into the new design, Cambridge Seven Associates worked with preservation architect Ann Beha Architects and developers Carpenter & Company to create a stunning building with accolades to its original use. Some of these include three stories of catwalks that wrap around the massive, towering lobby, lit by silhouettes of tress on the walls behind them. These catwalks now are used as dining spaces. The old shape of the windows were honored and redone, with beautiful circular detailing. There are also huge stained-glass windows towards the ceiling of the lobby that make the space feel even larger, and filter in colorful light. Actually staying in the hotel was a tad eerie knowing of all the prisoners the building had housed for a century before, but I loved the creativity that went into making a hotel out of something so different and it is my favorite hotel thus far I’ve ever gotten to stay in.

https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/the-liberty-hotel