I absolutely love architecture & design so when I saw these "Recycled Hotels", I just had to post pictures.







Can you believe this was a jail?!

For more than a century, people avoided checking into the building that’s now occupied by the Liberty Hotel in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. That’s because, up until 1990, it was the Charles Street jail, a structure that once housed Malcolm X and notorious anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Today, hip Bostonians wait in line to get into the Liberty’s Alibi bar and the hot restaurant The Clink. And the hotel retains vestiges of its former life, in the form of an airy atrium that was once the jail’s rotunda.

This place is damn sexy.....

Buildings that are a century or more old are rare in Los Angeles, but this youth-obsessed city does have a wealth of architectural treasures built in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. The midcentury period is celebrated at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, which features vintage furnishings and an hourglass-shaped pool.