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Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Four Seasons · Grand Luxury
Architect Henry Cobb, whose firm designed the Hancock Tower three blocks away under its earlier name I.M. Pei and Partners, came back to Back Bay decades later to build One Dalton: a 61-story tower whose crystalline glass facade deliberately plays off the Hancock's mirrored surface while topping it in height as the tallest residential building in New England. Four Seasons occupies the building's first twenty-two floors, opened in 2019, with Zuma's Japanese izakaya cooking as the signature restaurant. The hotel earned two Michelin Keys in 2025.
- 215 rooms
- Opened 2019
- Neighborhood: Back Bay
- Rooms from 397 sq ft (37 m²)
- Architect: Henry Cobb & CambridgeSeven
- Interiors: Bill Rooney of Bill Rooney Studio Inc & Thierry Despont
About Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street, Boston
- Back Bay's entire neighborhood sits on land created by filling tidal flats between the 1850s and 1880s, one of the largest urban reclamation projects in American history.
- From the upper floors, clear days bring the Charles River, Cambridge, and the White Mountains all into view at once.
- Entry-level rooms start at 397 sq ft (37 m²).
History
Back Bay's land is entirely artificial: the neighborhood was laid out on tidal flats filled in between the 1850s and the 1880s, one of the largest urban reclamation projects in American history, transforming a fetid estuary into the most systematically planned residential district in Boston. The Dalton Street block, adjacent to the Christian Science Plaza and the Prudential Center, sits near the western edge of that fill. That part of Back Bay grew as commercial and institutional real estate in the twentieth century. Commonwealth Avenue's Victorian brownstones stand to the east.
One Dalton was designed by Henry Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed and Partners — the same firm, under its earlier name I.M. Pei and Partners, that designed the Hancock Tower three blocks away, which fundamentally altered Boston's skyline when it opened in 1976. Cobb returned to Back Bay with One Dalton as a 61-story residential skyscraper that became, on completion, the tallest residential building in New England. The tower's crystalline geometry and faceted glass facade deliberately engage with the Hancock Tower's reflective surface while asserting its own identity through its height and profile against the Boston sky. Construction began in the mid-2010s, and Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street, Boston opened in 2019 as the building's first twenty-two floors — a hotel wrapped in the base of a skyscraper, with private residences continuing above.
The hotel arrived as Four Seasons' second Boston property, joining the longstanding Four Seasons on Boylston Street at the Public Garden, and quickly differentiated itself through altitude, contemporary design, and the arrival of Zuma, the globally respected Japanese contemporary izakaya brand, as its signature restaurant. The property earned Forbes Five-Star and AAA Five Diamond status and received two Michelin Keys in 2025. From the hotel's upper floors, the view encompasses the entire Back Bay grid, the Charles River, Cambridge, and on clear days the peaks of the White Mountains to the north — an unobstructed panorama that would have been impossible to imagine when the first fill barges arrived in the 1850s to create the land the building stands on.
The setting
Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street, Boston occupies the upper floors of the tallest residential building in New England — a 61-story tower at 1 Dalton Street in Back Bay, rising beside the Christian Science Plaza and within sight of the Prudential Tower. The neighborhood was laid out on filled tidal flats from the 1850s onward, and today Back Bay's Boylston Street links the property to Fenway Park in sixteen minutes on foot and the Museum of Fine Arts in nineteen. The tower's elevation affords panoramic views spanning Boston Harbor to the Blue Hills, while the immediate precinct — anchoring the western edge of Back Bay's luxury corridor alongside multiple landmark hotels — makes this the city's most vertically ambitious address.
Restaurants and bars
- Zuma — Restaurant · Izakaya
- One + One — Restaurant
- Trifecta — Restaurant
Experiences
- Trifecta Afternoon Tea — Popular afternoon tea hosted at Trifecta on weekends.
- Off-site sightseeing — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Christian Science Plaza, Fenway Park, Boston Public Library, Freedom Trail, Faneuil Hall, North End Neighbourhood.
- Off-site leisure — Back Bay Fens, Fenway Neighbourhood, The Esplanade, Charles River, Boston Public Garden, Boston Common.
- Off-site retail — Newbury Street, Prudential Center, Copley Place.
Amenities
- 64-ft curved heated indoor pool with underwater sound system
- Wellness Floor spa with 5 treatment suites including couple's suite
- 2,100 sq ft fitness center
- Steam rooms
- Forbes Five-Star Spa (2026)
- 10,000+ sq ft meeting space
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AAA Five Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star (2026)
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
- MICHELIN Two Keys (2025)
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