Hotel Agassiz

Hotel Agassiz is a historic building in Boston designed by Weston & Rand and built in 1872.

[1] It is located at 191 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay.

The building was designed for Alexander Agassiz (son of Harvard University naturalist Louis Agassiz) and his brother-in-law Henry Lee Higginson (son of George Higginson who founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

[2] Alexander Agassiz was the developer and president of the Calumet Mine and Hecla Copper Mines.

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