The Whitney Hotel Boston

A ground-up expansion of Beacon Hill's historic John Jeffries House, The Whitney Hotel opened in June 2019 with 65 rooms at the foot of the Longfellow Bridge. Developed by Related Beal and designed by Hacin + Associates, it's among the only new hotel construction Beacon Hill's preservation rules have allowed in decades.

The place

The Whitney occupies the corner of Charles and Cambridge Streets, at the foot of the Longfellow Bridge — the literal edge of Beacon Hill, Boston's most tightly preserved historic district. It's a five-minute walk from the Charles River Esplanade and Boston Common, in a neighborhood where new construction of any kind is rare.

The concept

Related Beal bought the site — the historic John Jeffries House, built in 1909 — in 2016 and rebuilt it into a 65-room hotel that opened in June 2019, adding a four-story extension on an adjacent parking lot rather than a full new-build. Local firm Hacin + Associates designed the addition to read as a natural extension of Beacon Hill's red-brick townhouse vocabulary, while Portland-based Ealain Studio handled interiors, working in navy, gray, and black with reclaimed French oak floors. It's named for Henry Melville Whitney, the 19th-century industrialist once associated with the site.

Dining & wellness

Peregrine, the hotel's restaurant, serves coastal-European and New England dishes across a dining room, bar, and garden patio, drawing on the same understated, materials-first sensibility as the rooms upstairs.