Boston's Lenox Hotel to temporarily close guest rooms for renovation

The Boston Globe · Alexa Gagosz · 2026-11-06 10:45 UTC

The hotel’s three restaurants — Willow & Ivy, The Irving at The Lenox, and Sweeney’s on Boylston — will remain open during construction.

One of Boston’s oldest independent hotels is checking out all of its overnight guests — for several months.

The 126-year-old Lenox Hotel will shut down its overnight accommodations starting this weekend for a full renovation of its more than 210 guests rooms, the hotel’s owners, the Saunders Hotel Group, told the Globe. Construction is set to begin Monday.

The boutique hotel is a well-known fixture at the corner of Boylston and Exeter streets in the Back Bay. Built in 1900, it was once compared to New York City’s 1,000-room Waldorf Astoria, according to hotel records. Actress Judy Garland famously stayed at the Lenox many times.

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