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This is the oldest house in Boston, built around 1680 and resides in Boston's North End. The owner was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.
What is Paul Revere's House
100
This seafood chain started over 50 years ago with a take out fish market in Inman square, Cambridge. Now they have 34 restaurants across the East Coast, their newest being in Boston's Seaport District.
What is Legal Seafoods
100
It has the distinction of being the city's oldest residential community, where people have lived continuously since it was settled in the 1630s and now is home to over 100 Italian eateries.
What is the North End
100
This is a complimentary service offering drop offs (no pick ups) within a 2 mile radius of the hotel.
What is the house car
100
Home of the Boston Red Sox since 1912, this is the oldest Major League Baseball Stadium currently in use. Tours of the park are given daily throughout the entire year, allowing fans to step back in time, and stroll through Red Sox history, tradition, and memories.
What is Fenway Park
200
The world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel, launched in 1797 and nicknamed Old Ironsides, it now resides in the Charlestown Navy Yard.
What is the USS Constitution
200
This New England “delicacy” was formerly served to prisoners and indentured servants?
What is lobster
200
It is a neighborhood of Federal-style rowhouses and is known for its narrow, gas-lit streets and brick sidewalks. Today, it is regarded as one of the most desirable and expensive neighborhoods in Boston and is home to Senator John Kerry.
What is Beacon Hill
200
If a guest forgot a tie or a pair of socks, these are found at concierge, in which special location.
What is the OH DEAR BOX
200
Located on Boston’s waterfront, it's principal feature is the Giant Ocean Tank, a cylindrical 200,000 gallon tank simulating a Caribbean coral reef, housing sharks, sea turtles, stingrays, eels, barracuda, and many smaller reef-living fish. Additional attractions include the Imax Theater, Harbor Seal exhibit and Penguin exhibit.
What is the New England Aquarium
300
This red (mostly brick) path through downtown Boston, connects 16 significant historic sites. It is a 2.5-mile walk from Boston Common to Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. Simple ground markers explaining events, graveyards, notable churches and other buildings, and a historic naval frigate are stops along the way.
What is the Freedom Trail
300
This restaurant is famous for it being the oldest continually running restaurant in the United States. Additionally in the 1940's a young Congressman named John F. Kennedy, spent Sunday afternoons at the restaurant's Table 18, eating lobster stew and reading the newspapers, a custom memorialized by a small plaque in the booth.
What is Union Oyster House
300
Standing at 52-stories tall, this is the 2nd tallest skyscraper in Boston. A 50th-floor observation deck, called the "Skywalk", is currently the highest observation deck in New England that is open to the public. It has a restaurant on it's 52nd floor, however critics claim the food does not match the view.
What is the Prudential Tower
300
This is where guests can check their emails, print documents and check in for their flight, among other things. It contains 2 PC computers, 1 Apple computer and 2 upright terminals.
What is the ECenter
300
This private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, was established in 1636 and affords a beautiful campus often visited by guests, who can walk through it on their own, or can take a tour of it.
What is Harvard University
400
Located near Boston's waterfront, it has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1742. It was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain. Now it is sometimes referred to as "the Cradle of Liberty".
What is Faneuil Hall
400
Created by French chef M. Sanzian at Boston's Parker House Hotel, this pudding and cake combination is a famous local dessert.
What is Boston Cream Pie
400
It is located in the Back Bay area of Boston, and runs roughly east-to-west, from the Boston Public Garden to Massachusetts Ave. It is lined with historic 19th-century brownstones that contain hundreds of shops and restaurants, making it a popular destination for tourists and locals and is touted as one of the most expensive streets in the world!
What is Newbury St.
400
These items can be borrowed from Concierge and are a big hit with kids, who often spend a couple of hours being entertained by them, while their parents can relax!
What are the Childrens DVD Movies
400
These are the two group tours of Boston, recommended by the concierge team. One is led by colorful Conducktors who drive amphibious vehicles in the streets of Boston and in the Charles River and the other is a hop-on hop-off tour.
What is the Duck Tour and what is the Old Town Trolley Tour
500
The art collection of this Museum, was originally located in Copley Square from 1876 until 1909, when it moved to its current much-larger quarters in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston.
What is the Museum of Fine Arts
500
This is a two part question; This restaurant, which is one of Boston's oldest, did not allow women in the main dining room until 1970 & This award winning chef is a current owner.
What is Locke Ober and Who is Lydia Shire
500
Living from 1822-1903, he was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. In fact he is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. He is famous for having co-designed many well-known urban parks, including Central Park in New York City and the Emerald Necklace in Boston.
Who is Frederick Law Olmstead
500
This computer application enables concierge to print a growing list of over 2,000 full-content newspapers from 95 countries in 51 languages, making it in essence the world's largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk.
What is Pressreader
500
This museum houses an art collection of world importance, including significant examples of European, Asian, and American art, from paintings and sculpture to tapestries and decorative arts. It is the only private art collection in which the building, collection, and installations are the creation of one individual.
What is the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum