Downtown Crossing – Page 3 – Building The Godfrey

Marble, Marble, Marble

As a boutique hotel, there are many characteristics and features that are unique to just our property in Boston. Our high standards and excellent guest service will be consistent with our Chicago flagship hotel. And, another consistency will be the beautiful use of marble in our lobby. Both properties have marble yet they won’t be exactly the same.

When guests enter our lobby in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, they will notice a luxurious, welcoming lobby with our team ready to greet them. We also are restoring some of the original character and charm of our building, including the original marble. During our site visit, we took photos of the original marble below. By opening, we will change the overall color but keep the beautiful look of the marble through restoration and preservation.

Original marble in our building, which will be restored during the building process.

And this is the “before!” We are excited to show you the “after.”

Just to jog your memory, Chicago’s lobby has gorgeous marble as well, which you can see in the photo below:

The Godfrey Hotel Chicago. Photo by Papadakis Photography.

Stay tuned for continued updates on our Boston property and let us know if you have questions.

Boston Globe Spotlight

We’re pleased to share our feature in The Boston Globe that ran today online. The article, “Upscale hotel expected to open in Downtown Crossing this fall,” is the first look inside our hotel, including a photo of one of our guest rooms overlooking Washington Street.

The article states, “It took some imagination to see the dilapidated Blake and Amory building along Washington Street as the future home of a new upscale hotel in downtown Boston.

But the company that bought the historic building two years ago for $23 million has been working to revive it ever since. Construction will continue through the summer and the owners expect the new 242-room Godfrey Hotel Boston to open on the corner of Washington and West streets in the fall.”

The article gives more details on what our hotel design will look like, including:

Oak paneling
Plenty of couches and coffee tables
Porcelain flooring
Large windows that open out onto the street.

And, as our General Manager Larry Casillo poignantly said, “What we’re trying to do is happily marry historical grandiose architecture with a modern inside.”

You can see the full article here.

We’ll continue to keep you updated on the progress of our hotel and exciting articles that cover our property.

Exterior rendering of The Godfrey Hotel Boston

Rooted in History

With any great hotel restoration project, you need to take careful consideration into the history of the building and its surroundings. We’re doing just that in the development of our Boston property.

The Godfrey Boston will emerge from the historic Amory and Blake buildings in the Downtown Crossing neighborhood. It’s a unique area with unique buildings to go along with it. Of course, we want to preserve that. The transformation of both the Blake and Amory buildings is exciting – they were are the epicenter of Boston’s main shopping district originally. Many of the early tenants were fabric and garment trade outlets with the lower floors being different retail locations.

Bringing “Peace and Welcome” to Downtown Crossing

Oxford Capital Group, LLC is developing the next lifestyle hotel of the Godfrey brand in Boston’s Downtown Crossing. With a name that means “peace and welcome,” the hotel is emerging in the historic Amory and Blake buildings (505 Washington Street).

Our hotel is walking distance from Boston Common and a number of shopping destinations in town. In keeping with The Godfrey’s “Discover Your Element” tagline, it encourages guests to discover an element of the hotel that best suits their personalized needs, ranging from the hotel amenities of a chef-driven restaurant, local coffee house, lobby bar, 24-hour fitness center, free Wi-Fi and more.

Our team at Oxford was warmly greeted by our neighbors, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, our partners in the Downtown Boston Improvement District (BID) and the entire Boston community.