“Welcome to the Revolution,” an inscription says at, funnily enough, the Revolution, a new hotel in Boston’s South End that aims to celebrate the city’s spirit and innovators. Hence the vast street-art mural in the double-storey foyer and the tall white Innovation Tower installation dedicated to local inventions, from basketball to flamingo lawn decorations. The hotel has been crafted out of a 1950s YWCA-type building, but its best rooms are actually across the road: 14 airy lofts with beds you don’t want to get out of, blackout blinds that do the job, superfast wifi, good robes and huge photographic prints of old Boston. The Revolution is emblematic of a sea change in New England hospitality, which has long traded on tradition and colonial charm.

Source: The Times October 11, 2019 23:08 UTC