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Lenox Hotel: Green Grandaddy
Long before it was hip—and essential for business—to be green (we’re talking ‘80s), the Saunders family’s Lenox Hotel started using environmentally friendly soap and offered a linen-reuse program. (Folks in the '80s probably thought that was "tubular" or whatever their silly vernacular was.) TripAdvisor recently recognized the Copely Square mainstay as one of the greenest hotels in the country; No. 8 of 10 to be exact. The Lenox still recycles 88% of its waste and donates unused amenities to local charities. Built for $1.1M in 1900 by Lucius Boomer, owner of the Waldorf Astoria, the Lenox was then Boston’s tallest building at 11 stories. Now, it’s one of the greenest.
