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The Omni Parker House bar, The Last Hurrah, was named for Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised chronicling of Mayor Curley's colorful life. [4] John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for Congress at the Parker House in 1946 and also held his bachelor party in the hotel's Press Room there in 1953. [3]
Harvey D. Parker (1805–1884), also known as H.D. Parker, was an hotelier in Boston, Massachusetts. He built the Parker House , the first hotel in the United States "on the European Plan". Biography
Alice H. Parker (1895 – 1920) [1] was an African American inventor who was active in the early 1900s. She is known for her patent for a gas furnace. She is known for her patent for a gas furnace. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
A Parker House roll is a bread roll made by flattening the center of a ball of dough with a rolling pin so that it becomes an oval shape, and then folding the oval in half. They are made with milk and are generally quite buttery, soft, and slightly sweet with a crispy shell. They were invented at the Parker House Hotel in Boston, during the ...
Parker House Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, now known as the Omni Parker House; Parker House (Haven Street, Reading, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed;
Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889 – August 28, 1967) was an American board game designer who is controversially credited as the inventor of the board game Monopoly by Parker Brothers, the game's publisher.
Backhoes have begun razing the famed “Sea Aerie” house designed and built in 1963 by famed Miami architect Alfred Browning Parker in Coral Gables — a demolition that came despite pleas from ...
The restored John P. Parker house in Ripley, Ohio. John P. Parker (c. 1827 – January 30, 1900) was an American abolitionist, inventor, iron moulder and industrialist. Parker, who was African American, helped hundreds of slaves to freedom in the Underground Railroad resistance movement based in Ripley, Ohio. He saved and rescued fugitive ...