Liberty Hotel (former Charles Street Jail) - historic jail turned hotel often memed

The Liberty Hotel occupies the former Charles Street Jail, a 19th-century granite structure redeveloped into a luxury hotel that preserves many jail-era architectural features. Images contrasting the building’s ornate exterior and its former jail interior (e.g., catwalks, cells converted to rooms) are commonly circulated and captioned as memes about contrasts between past and present or ironic luxury. The site’s visible history and striking adaptive reuse attract frequent social-media sharing and visual jokes about transformation and irony.