Raleigh, North Carolina
Heights House Hotel
A pre-Civil War mansion in Boylan Heights, open as a hotel for the first time in its 160-year history.
Open · May 2021
An 1860s Italianate mansion in Raleigh's Boylan Heights neighborhood reopened in May 2021 as Heights House Hotel: nine guest rooms, ten fireplaces and a restored parlor, marking the first time the historic house has operated as a hotel.
The essentials
- Group
- Independent
- Opening
- May 2021
- Rooms & suites
- 9 rooms
- Segment
- Boutique/Luxury
- Designer
- Brian Costello
- Entry rate
- From $230
The place
Montfort Hall, an Italianate mansion completed around 1860, sits in the Boylan Heights neighborhood just southwest of downtown Raleigh: a residential setting rather than a hotel district.
The concept
Sarah and Jim Shepherd bought the roughly 10,000-square-foot mansion in 2018 and spent several years restoring it (15-foot ceilings, original hardwood floors, ten fireplaces, a library and a parlor kept intact) before opening it as Heights House Hotel in May 2021, the first time the building has ever operated as a hotel. Interior designer Brian Costello handled the styling, blending the house's vintage bones with contemporary furnishings across nine en-suite guest rooms that can sleep up to 20 guests total.
Dining & wellness
The Parlor, the hotel's in-house dining room, serves a European-style breakfast, a Sunday Sauce dinner and afternoon tea service to guests.
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