Boston Fashion Week

Featuring Designer Sam Mendoza at the Liberty Hotel.

Formerly known as the Charles Street Jail and completed in 1851. The original building, a collaborative effort by architect Gridley James Fox Bryant, widely considered Boston’s most accomplished architect of the time, and Rev. Louis Dwight, a prominent Yale-educated penologist whose travels shaped his interest in and advocacy for prison reform. The jail was though to be one of the best examples of the “Boston Granite Style” of the mid-19th century.

In 1973, after 120 years of housing some of Boston’s most notorious criminals, prisoners revolted because of poor living conditions and the jail was declared unfit and in violation of the inmates’ constitutional rights. On Memorial Day weekend 1990, the last prisoners were moved to the new Suffolk County Jail.

Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm.
If anything, a excuse to get dolled up!
Photos to come.