The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel

The Fairmont Copley Plaza
The Fairmont Copley Plaza and Copley Square, 2007
General information
Location	138 St. James Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Opening	1912
Owner	FelCor Lodging Trust Inc.
Management	Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
Design and construction
Architect	Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
Other information
Number of rooms	383
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Fairmont Copley Plaza

The Fairmont Copley Plaza is a Forbes three-star, AAA four-diamond hotel in downtown Boston, Massachusetts owned by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. It stands on Copley Square, part of an architectural ensemble that includes the John Hancock Tower, Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church, and Charles Follen McKim's Boston Public Library.

The Fairmont Copley Plaza is recognized as one of the Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is currently under consideration for local landmark status with the Boston Landmarks Commission

The Copley Plaza was built on the original site of the Museum of Fine Arts and named in honor of John Singleton Copley, an American painter. The total cost was $5.5 million.

The hotel's architect was Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, who also designed other hotels, including the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C. and the Plaza Hotel in New York City, the Copley Plaza's sister hotel. The seven-floor hotel is constructed of limestone and buff brick in the Beaux-Arts style. The E-shaped building is supported by pilings driven to a depth of 70 feet (21 m) below the street level.