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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 112587, member: 136&quot;]I&#039;ve stayed at the Lenox in Boston, MA - it&#039;s a really nice place!</p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking at that portrait &amp; wondering if it somehow had anything to do with the history of the hotel (tho I wasn&#039;t sure how anything pre-Raphaelite might...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, when I went to the hotel&#039;s own website and read, &quot;...a ‘rags-to-riches’ hotel impresario known as Lucius Boomer had just erected Boston’s tallest building — a $1.1 million, 11-story Beaux-Arts hotel, which he would name for Lady Sarah Lennox, wife of King George, III,&quot; I sort of gave up.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, as far as I recall, Sarah Lennox was never married to George, and second, even if she were, why the heck would such a hotel in MA be named after her in 1900? (In a distant 3rd, this image looks nothing like her, anyway.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I was also wondering if maybe there was a Lenox Hotel in Boston in the UK, but I didn&#039;t find anything there, either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still a mystery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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