Tremont House, (Boston,Usa); 1823-1894, NeoClassical





Isaiah Rogers, born August 17, 1800-April 13, 1869, was an architect in the United States. He was born to Isaac Rogers and Hannah Ford in Marshfield Massachusetts. In 1823 He married a woman by the name of Emily Wesley Tibet, and had eight children, only four of them survived. Two of his sons became architects studying behind their father. He was a student under Solomon Willard, and became known as the country’s foremost hotel architect, renowned in Boston for his Tremont House. The Tremont house was the first hotel built on Tremont and Season street in 1823, and was known for having the first of many items. This four-story, granite faced, piece of neoclassical architecture included indoor plumbing, indoor toilets, a reception area, locked rooms for guests, free soap, and even bellboys. There were eight toilets on the ground floor and bathrooms with baths made from copper and tin in the basement, each with heated water, heated with local gas. The water in the building was raised into tanks that resides on the roof with steam powered pumps, and then it would flow into taps with gravity.  The hotel was revolutionary for women, since at the time it was unacceptable for women to eat alone, yet in the hotel there was a dine alone for women called the “Ladies’ ordinary.”

People such as Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the president Andrew Jackson resides in the space. It was opened by mayor Josaih Quincy and made way for a large dinner after the ribbon cutting ceremony. In 1894 the building was razed and in 1895 replaces by an office. Today this office has become a citizens bank and part of Suffolk university.  He then went on to build the Astor house in New York, and this led to another world renowned piece of architecture along with the Exchange hotel in Richmond, Virginia. He continued to design the Burnett House in Cincinnati, and the largest hotel in the Midwest, and finally after all of this he went back to expand the Astor house to include the Astor Opera House. After some time of creating iconic feet’s of hotel architecture he began the design of the Cathedral of the Assumption alongside William Keeley, creating his first work of Neo-Gothic architecture. This became the tallest building in 1852 with its 287 foot spire. Isaiah Rogers continued into experimentation even going as far as to design locks. In 1853 he founded an architecture firm in Louisville, Kentucky alongside Henry, Whitestone.
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Works Cited
“American Architect and Architecture.” Google Books, books.google.com/books?id=HbIxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=isaiah%2Brogers%2Bnew%2Byork%2Bfive&source=bl&ots=gNSSkO2u_B&sig=xGj_qDpc0g6_4AsK0Ldn2-5AxBs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimvpqK8fLZAhUBiIMKHd5SDQQ4ChDoATAAegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=isaiah%20rogers%20new%20york%20five&f=false.


Bilis, Madeline, and Boston Magazine. “TBT: When the First Modern Hotel in America Opened in Boston.” Boston Magazine, 15 Oct. 2015, www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2015/10/15/tremont-house/.

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