Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Omni Parker House A Brief History of America's Longest Continuously Operating Hotel by Susan Wil The Omni Parker House: A Brief History of America's Longest Continuously Operating Hotel by Susan Wilson. By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., Globe Staff, 12/22/2002. Delays. Cost increases. Investigations. The Big Dig has its big issues. But there are many smaller ones too, which are debated, and even decided, in relative anonymity. The Surface Artery conundrum is only the largest issue that involves real estate. Here's another. Discussions have simmered for months over the placement of a section of the Harborwalk and a tiny park on the South Boston side of Fort Point Channel, adjacent to land owned by Gillette Co. Environmental and neighborhood groups have long believed that they were getting something along the lines of plans, presented to them by Big Dig officials, showing a new Mount Washington Street, running from A Street - through Gillette's property -- to the channel. At the end, along the water and intersecting the Harborwalk, would be a park. It was a little part of a developing overall plan to make the so-called hundred acres straddling A Street a livable community, following a long history of industrial use and the recent turmoil of Big Dig excavation. Well, when some of the groups' representatives went to a Central Artery Environmental Oversight Committee meeting a couple of months ago, guess what. The plans had changed. The street and the park had been moved over and were closer to a small Gillette pump building. "There is controversy around the relocation on two points," said Valerie Burns, president of the Boston Natural Areas Network. "One, they're putting the Harborwalk not on the water side but on the back of the pump building." The other issue is proximity to the pump house. "There are times the pump building emits a high-pitched noise, and times when it emits a bad smell," Burns said. Gillette and Big Dig and community officials met and met again, but there was no turning back. Gillette has given up a lot during Big Dig construction, but then the company has been handsomely repaid -- $60 million or more in overall compensation for the use of its territory while the Massachusetts Turnpike was being extended. This battle's over. "That's the situation, and I'd have to say it's happening -- the arrangement between Gillette and the Artery," said Burns. "You kind of have to pick your battles. We couldn't get this to change." Minor concessions were made to the community. The sidewalk along Mount Washington was moved so it would not lead into a brick wall. Some landscaping was added. Said Eric Kraus, a Gillette spokesman: "We've put a lot of time and effort in trying to come up with a plausible solution. We're working to ensure the park is beautiful and functional, but not disruptive to our business operations." Vivien Li, executive director of the Boston Harbor Association, hopes it is not a done deal. "We do not believe that what is being proposed at this time should be called a Harborwalk," she said, "because it's not on the harbor. If they want to call it a public pathway, fine." Li noted tht there is a large window in the pump house on the water side; she suggests the walk be constructed along the water, with a view for the public into the pump house. "Just like at the International Cargo Port, you can look at the industrial activity," she said. "People love that. "There's a way to balance the need for security and allowing people to better understand the operations of Gillette," said Li. "I hope in the new year all parties can work together to get a compromise. That's my Christmas wish." Other assets. Alas, you can't buy it. "It's not commercially available," said a Parker House saleswoman, Rima Patel. "Come and stay and request a copy. The concierge desk has them. We just don't sell them." There is more information at www.cityofboston.gov/bra/eitc, or call Mimi Turchinetz, 617-918-5259. We don't know what the Charles Hotel folks think about it, but the promotional material says Hotel Marlowe's presidential suite "will be the most luxurious offering this side of the Charles River." For the rest of us, rates will start at $179 a night. The Omni Parker House: A Brief History of America's Longest Continuously Operating Hotel by Susan Wilson. By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., Globe Staff, 12/22/2002. Delays. Cost increases. Investigations. The Big Dig has its big issues. But there are many smaller ones too, which are debated, and even decided, in relative anonymity. The Surface Artery conundrum is only the largest issue that involves real estate. Here's another. Discussions have simmered for months over the placement of a section of the Harborwalk and a tiny park on the South Boston side of Fort Point Channel, adjacent to land owned by Gillette Co. Environmental and neighborhood groups have long believed that they were getting something along the lines of plans, presented to them by Big Dig officials, showing a new Mount Washington Street, running from A Street - through Gillette's property -- to the channel. At the end, along the water and intersecting the Harborwalk, would be a park. It was a little part of a developing overall plan to make the so-called hundred acres straddling A Street a livable community, following a long history of industrial use and the recent turmoil of Big Dig excavation. Well, when some of the groups' representatives went to a Central Artery Environmental Oversight Committee meeting a couple of months ago, guess what. The plans had changed. The street and the park had been moved over and were closer to a small Gillette pump building. "There is controversy around the relocation on two points," said Valerie Burns, president of the Boston Natural Areas Network. "One, they're putting the Harborwalk not on the water side but on the back of the pump building." The other issue is proximity to the pump house. "There are times the pump building emits a high-pitched noise, and times when it emits a bad smell," Burns said. Gillette and Big Dig and community officials met and met again, but there was no turning back. Gillette has given up a lot during Big Dig construction, but then the company has been handsomely repaid -- $60 million or more in overall compensation for the use of its territory while the Massachusetts Turnpike was being extended. This battle's over. "That's the situation, and I'd have to say it's happening -- the arrangement between Gillette and the Artery," said Burns. "You kind of have to pick your battles. We couldn't get this to change." Minor concessions were made to the community. The sidewalk along Mount Washington was moved so it would not lead into a brick wall. Some landscaping was added. Said Eric Kraus, a Gillette spokesman: "We've put a lot of time and effort in trying to come up with a plausible solution. We're working to ensure the park is beautiful and functional, but not disruptive to our business operations." Vivien Li, executive director of the Boston Harbor Association, hopes it is not a done deal. "We do not believe that what is being proposed at this time should be called a Harborwalk," she said, "because it's not on the harbor. If they want to call it a public pathway, fine." Li noted tht there is a large window in the pump house on the water side; she suggests the walk be constructed along the water, with a view for the public into the pump house. "Just like at the International Cargo Port, you can look at the industrial activity," she said. "People love that. "There's a way to balance the need for security and allowing people to better understand the operations of Gillette," said Li. "I hope in the new year all parties can work together to get a compromise. That's my Christmas wish." Other assets. Alas, you can't buy it. "It's not commercially available," said a Parker House saleswoman, Rima Patel. "Come and stay and request a copy. The concierge desk has them. We just don't sell them." There is more information at www.cityofboston.gov/bra/eitc, or call Mimi Turchinetz, 617-918-5259. We don't know what the Charles Hotel folks think about it, but the promotional material says Hotel Marlowe's presidential suite "will be the most luxurious offering this side of the Charles River." For the rest of us, rates will start at $179 a night. Omni Parker House. Built in 1927, the Omni Parker House is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The original Parker House Hotel opened on the site on October 8, 1855, making it the longest continuously operating hotel in the United States. Additions and alterations were made to the original building starting only five years after its opening. Between 1866 and 1925, the hotel increased in size with new stories and additions, eventually expanding its footprint over 41,400 square feet of land—the bulk of the city lot bordered by Tremont, School, and Bosworth Streets and Chapman Place. Founder Harvey D. Parker ran the hotel until his death in 1884, when the business passed on to his partners. Subsequent proprietors of the Parker House were Edward O. Punchard and Joseph H. Beckman (1884–1891), Joseph Reed Whipple and the J. R. Whipple Corporation (1891– 1933), Glenwood Sherrard (1933–1968), the Dunfey family (1968–1996), and Robert Rowling of TRT Holdings (1996–present). [1] Omni Parker House, Boston, is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [2] It is currently under study for becoming a Boston Landmark. [3] Although the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the hotel from hosting guests for a short period of time, the operations and marketing teams continued to manage the property in preparation to welcome back guests, groups and social events. Contents. History 19th century 20th century 21st century Famous workers In literature and music See also References External links. History. 19th century. Opened in 1855 by Harvey D. Parker and located on School Street near the corner of Tremont, not far from the seat of the Massachusetts state government, the hotel has long been a rendezvous for politicians. [4] The hotel was home to the Saturday Club, which met on the fourth Saturday of every month, except during July, August, and September. Among the Saturday Club’s nineteenth-century members were poet, essayist, and preeminent transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and The Atlantic Monthly editor James Russell Lowell, novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, poets John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, diplomat Charles Francis Adams, historian Francis Parkman, and sage-about-town Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. [1] Charles Dickens resided in the Parker House for five months in 1867–1868 in his own apartments; he first recited and performed "A Christmas Carol" for the Saturday Club at the Parker House, then again for the adoring public at nearby Tremont Temple. [5] The Parker House currently holds possession of the door to Dickens' guest room when he stayed in 1867 and the mirror used by him for rehearsals. The hotel introduced to America what became known as the European Plan . Prior to that time, American hotels had included meals in the cost of a room, and offered them only at set times. The Parker House charged only for the room, with meals charged separately and offered whenever the guest chose. [4] Actor John Wilkes Booth stayed at the hotel April 5–6, 1865, eight days before assassinating Abraham Lincoln. He was apparently in Boston to see his brother, actor Edwin Booth, who was performing there. While in Boston, Booth was seen practicing at a firing range near the Parker House. [1] [4] The Parker House created Massachusetts’ state dessert, Boston cream pie; [4] invented the Parker House roll; and coined the word "scrod," which is not a kind of fish, but a term for the freshest, finest, and youngest white fish of the day. [1] Jacques Offenbach stayed at the hotel during an 1876 tour of the U.S., and, inspired by the rolls, sang a tune to friends as a joke. He would later use it as a theme in his opera, The Tales of Hoffmann . [4] On May 31, 1884, when founder Harvey Parker died at the age of 79, he was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, the “permanent home” of many of Boston’s most prestigious people. The ambitious Maine farm boy who arrived in Boston almost penniless in 1825, died with a net worth of $1,272,546.94. Parker’s will granted $100,000 to Boston’s new Museum of Fine Arts, and provided the foundation for its Print Department. [1] In 1891, J. Reed Whipple assumed control of the Parker House. To provide his Boston diners with the freshest and finest food products available, Whipple established his own 2,500-acre dairy farm in New Boston, New Hampshire. Valley View Farm was divided into Dairy, Piggery, and Hennery Departments, employing some ninety people. In order to make daily deliveries to Boston, Whipple helped build a railroad depot in New Boston and connected it to existing main lines with a spur track later leased to the Boston & Maine Railroad. [1] 20th century. The original Parker House building and later architectural additions were demolished in the mid 1920s, and replaced in 1927 with a sleek, modern building, essentially the one that stands there today. One wing of the nineteenth century hotel remained open until the new building was completed in 1927, enabling the hotel to lay claim to being "America's oldest operating hotel". [6] James Michael Curley, the charismatic, Irish-American "Mayor of the Poor" who dominated Boston politics for the first half of the twentieth century, was a constant presence at the Parker House, in part because Old City Hall stood directly across from the hotel on School Street. The Omni Parker House bar, The Last Hurrah , was named for Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised chronicling of Mayor Curley’s colorful life. [1] John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for Congress at the Parker House in 1946 and also held his bachelor party in the hotel's Press Room there in 1953. [4] Then Senator Kennedy also proposed to his future wife, Jackie Bouvier, at Table 40 in Parker's Restaurant located inside the Hotel. The hotel was bought by Dunfey Hotels in 1968. [7] The Dunfeys rejuvenated and reinvented the Parker House as a historic/contemporary destination of choice and laid claim to its intellectual history. Inspired by the nineteenth-century Saturday Club, they founded the New England Circle in 1974, purposeful gatherings of activists from a variety of backgrounds and experiences designed to advance civil and civic dialogue and inspire constructive community change. [1] In 1983, that chain bought Omni Hotels and reorganized itself, with the Dunfey name phased out and the Parker House placed in the Omni division. [8] 21st century. The hotel currently has 551 rooms and suites. [9] In 2009, AAA named the hotel one of the top 10 historic U.S. hotels. [10] The Omni Parker House is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Hotels of America program. Famous workers. Ho Chi Minh worked as a baker at the hotel from 1912 to 1913. Malcolm X, then going by the name Malcolm Little, worked as a busboy at the hotel in the 1940s. [4] Long before he was a culinary superstar, Emeril Lagasse served as Sous Chef in the Parker kitchens from 1979 to 1981. [1] In literature and music. For more than 150 years, the Parker House has appeared in prose and poetry set in and around Boston. Edith Wharton included a private meeting between characters Mr. Newland Archer and Countess Ellen Olenska at the Parker House in her celebrated work of the early 20th century, The Age of Innocence . [11] Archer is told that the Countess Olenska is staying in Boston at the Parker House, and he flees Newport to meet her there. [12] Quentin Compson treats himself to a meal at Parker's Restaurant before committing suicide by flinging himself from the Anderson Memorial Bridge into the Charles River in William Faulkner's 1929 novel "The Sound and the Fury." In Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' Willy Loman claims he 'met a salesman in the Parker House'. One imagines that as today a salesman would meet people in the public areas of such a grand hotel but stay, like Willy, at somewhere like the 'Standish Arms'. Although many "haunting" books and "ghost tours" claim that Stephen King's 1999 short story 1408 —about a writer who experiences a haunted stay at a New York hotel called the Dolphin—was based on Room 303 of the Parker House and the supernatural events surrounding the room, King's personal assistant says that claim is false. [1] In March 1877, humorist Mark Twain was staying at the Parker House in room 168. A reporter from the Boston Globe entered Twain's room, shuttled in by a porter. After a pause of several moments, Twain swiveled around in his large easy chair and faced his visitor. With a local newspaper in hand and puffing on a large cigar, Twain observed to the reporter, "You see for yourself that I'm pretty near heaven—not theologically, of course, but by the hotel standard." [1] Twain's quote inspired the title for the definitive history of the Parker House, Heaven, By Hotel Standards , written by Susan Wilson and most recently published in 2019. [1] In Donna Tartt's 1992 novel The Secret History, the characters stayed at the Parker House, mentioning it was where Dickens had stayed. In Anita Diamant's 2004 novel, The Boston Girl, the main character experiences a bad date at the Parker House. The 2011 Grammy award-winning Parker Quartet, both founded and currently based in Boston, is named after the hotel. [13] See also. Harvey D. Parker (1805–1884), founder of the Parker House. Related Research Articles. The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review . Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street , the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters ' ". The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author, with publishers clamoring for her work. The Graduate Providence is an upscale hotel that opened in 1922 as the Providence Biltmore Hotel , part of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels chain. It is located on the southern corner of Kennedy Plaza at 11 Dorrance Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Isaiah Rogers was a US architect from Massachusetts who eventually moved his practice south, where he was based in Louisville, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. He completed numerous designs for hotels, courthouses and other major buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, New York, before that relocation. Tremont House , sometimes called the Tremont Hotel , was a hotel designed in 1829 by Isaiah Rogers in Boston, Massachusetts. Notable guests included Davy Crockett and Charles Dickens. Mission Hill is a ¾ square mile, primarily residential neighborhood of Boston that borders Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Brookline and Fenway- Kenmore. It is home to several hospitals and universities, including Brigham and Women's Hospital and New England Baptist Hospital. Mission Hill is known for its brick row houses and triple decker homes of the late 19th century. The population was estimated at 15,883 in 2011. The Park Central Hotel is a 25-story, 935-room hotel located across the street from Carnegie Hall at 870 7th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed in the Renaissance Revival style and opened on June 12, 1927. The Park Central is an independent hotel managed by Highgate Holdings. Dickens in America is a 2005 television documentary following Charles Dickens' travels across the United States in 1842, during which the young journalist penned a travel book, American Notes . School Street is a short but significant street in the center of Boston, Massachusetts. It is so named for being the site of the first public school in the United States. The school operated at various addresses on the street from 1704 to 1844. Ticknor and Fields was an American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Harvey D. Parker (1805–1884), also known as H.D. Parker , was an hotelier in Boston, Massachusetts. He built the Parker House, the first hotel in the United States "on the European Plan". The Saturday Club , established in 1855, was an informal monthly gathering in Boston, Massachusetts, of writers, scientists, philosophers, historians, and other notable thinkers of the mid-Nineteenth Century. Omni Hotels & Resorts is an American privately held, international luxury hotel company based in Dallas, Texas. The company was founded in 1958 as Dunfey Hotels, and operates 50 properties in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, totaling over 20,010 rooms and employing more than 23,000 people. William Washburn (1808–1890) was an architect and city councilor in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in the mid-19th century. He designed Boston's National Theatre (1836), Revere House hotel (1847), Tremont Temple (1853) and Parker House hotel (1854). He served on the Boston City Council 1853-1855. Cummings and Sears was an architecture firm in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, established by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears. In the 1860s they kept an office in the Studio Building on Tremont Street, moving in the 1870s to Pemberton Square. Young's Hotel (1860–1927) in Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Court Street in the Financial District, in a building designed by William Washburn. George Young established the business, later taken over by Joseph Reed Whipple and George G. Hall. Guests at Young's included Mark Twain, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Rutherford B. Hayes, and numerous others. Amory Nelson Hardy or A.N. Hardy (1835–1911) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. Portrait subjects included US president Chester A. Arthur, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, politician James G. Blaine, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writer Julia Ward Howe, labor activist Florence Kelley, suffragist Mary Livermore, philanthropist Isabella Somerset, and suffragist Frances Willard. He also made "electric-light portraits" of roller skaters in 1883. Hotel Touraine (1897-1966) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a residential hotel on the corner of Tremont Street and Boylston Street, near the Boston Common. The architecture firm of Winslow and Wetherell designed the 11-story building in the Jacobethan style, constructed of "brick and limestone;" its "baronial" appearance was "patterned inside and out after a 16th-century chateau of the dukes of Touraine." It had dining rooms and a circulating library. Owners included Joseph Reed Whipple and George A. Turain. Parker, Thomas and Rice and Parker & Thomas were architectural firms formed in the early 20th century by partners J. Harleston Parker, Douglas H. Thomas, and Arthur W. Rice. Historic Hotels of America is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation that was founded in 1989 with 32 charter members; the programs accepts nominations and identifies hotels that have maintained their authenticity, sense of place, and architectural integrity. As of June 5, 2015, the program included over 260 members in 44 states, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Berkshire Hotel , now known as Omni Berkshire Place , was a hotel in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, operated by Omni Hotels & Resorts. Located at 21 East 52nd Street, near Madison Avenue, it opened in 1926 and was designed by architects Warren & Wetmore in Classical Revival style. It was built as a residential hotel and was part of the "Terminal City" project consisting of hotels and apartment buildings in the area around Grand Central Terminal. It previously had up to 500 suites, but by the time it closed in 2020, it had 395 guestrooms and suites. The Omni Parker House: A Brief History of America's Longest Continuously Operating Hotel by Susan Wilson. "Heaven, By Hotel Standards" is a delightfully anecdotal and lavishly illustrated new book by author and photographer Susan Wilson. The Omni Parker House has played an integral role in the history of Boston since 1855. In the culinary world, it's been heralded as the home of the Parker House Roll and Boston Cream Pie--and a place where Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, and Emeril Lagasse once worked in the kitchens. It's where the brightest lights of America's Golden Age of Literature--writers like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Longfellow--regularly met in the legendary Saturday Club, where world-class musicians and theatricians have been inspired and nurtured, and where generations of local and national politicians assembled for private meetings, press conferences, and power breakfasts. "The Parker House book is magnificent -- visually and photos and text. All so entertaining. And i love all the colors and the quality of paper and the size, etc. Full of facts and smiles and life." THE LITERARY TRAIL OF GREATER BOSTON: A tour of sites in Boston, Cambridge, and Concord. No city in America can match the literary heritage of Boston. Just as the city has a Freedom Trail connecting its Revolutionary sites, it also has a Literary Trail connecting the homes, workplaces, and final resting places of its great writers. This revised second edition of Susan Wilson's expert guidebook (originally published 2000, ISBN 0-618-05013-2) brings the story up to the minute. Spanning nearly four centuries of literary greatness, from Anne Hutchinson and Cotton Mather to Sylvia Plath and John Updike, The Literary Trail of Greater Boston covers more than just Boston proper, as the title suggests. Winding its way through Cambridge and finding its way to Concord, Wilson's work pays special tribute to literary heroes of the nineteenth century, including Alcott, Thoreau, Longfellow, Emerson, and Hawthorne, while guiding readers to sites related to Kahlil Gibran, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Eugene O'Neill, E. E. Cummings, and a remarkable number of other modern writers. This unusual guidebook also features lively selections from the writers' own works along with short essays on writers past by well-known contemporary writers. These include Julia Child on Fannie Farmer, David McCullough on Francis Parkman, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on W. E. B. DuBois. "The Literary Trail of Greater Boston is part tour guide, part literary history, altogether charming." --novelist Robert B. Parker. "If you're visiting for the first time, let this great little guidebook show you the treasures of Boston's literary past. If you've lived here all your life, let it remind you of the richness around you." --William Martin, author of Back Bay and Harvard Yard. BOSTON SITES & INSIGHTS: An Essential Guide to Historic Landmarks In and Around Boston. "A marvelous multicultural book. The best introduction to the tourist sites in Boston and the surrounding area we have come across."-The Discerning Traveler. Whether you're looking for a history of one of the city's world-class museums or for a fascinating story about Boston's popular North End, Susan Wilson covers it all in Boston Sites and Insights. Divided into six sections that reflect the diversity of people, activities, and landmarks within the city, this fascinating book leaves no stone unturned. With practical, up-to-date information in an "Essentials" section at the end of each chapter as well as fresh retellings of popular legends and lore, Wilson provides everything the modern visitor or current resident needs to know to enjoy the multicultural city of Boston, Massachusetts. "The book I've long been waiting for, companionably providing me with the story on buildings I've wanted to know more about, as well as alluring me with information on lore laden sites and settings I can now add to my circle of friends. The book is lively, distinguished and fun." --Lynda Morgenroth, author of Boston Neighborhoods. "Boston Sites and Insights is the most inclusive listing of things to do in the Boston area I've seen. Ms. Wilson has outdone herself, including something for everyone with this truly multicultural travel guide." --Kenneth A. Heidelberg, Boston African American National Historic Site. "This thorough, entertaining guide is recommended both to the general public and to serious students of history." --Library Journal. "A dense, information-packed introduction to Beantown. fascinating." --Los Angeles Times. http://www.booksense.com http://www.Amazon.com http://www.Barnesandnoble.com http://www.Borders.com (teamed with Amazon) GARDEN OF MEMORIES: A Guide to Historic Forest Hills. Susan's beautifully written, lavishly illustrated, four-color book takes visitors on six themed walking tours through the largest, most beautiful rural garden cemetery and sculpture garden in America. The Omni Parker House: A Brief History of America's Longest Continuously Operating Hotel by Susan Wilson. Your version of Microsoft Internet Explorer is not supported for secure online transactions. 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