Godfrey – Building The Godfrey

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.

New Flooring at I|O Urban Roofscape

Here are a couple of photos of I|O Urban Roofscape’s new wood floor made of IPE decking. This flooring will cover the entire outside of the building on the 4th floor. In the second photo, notice the special construction under the deck for flooring support, which allows for all-weather seasons and also levels the deck. Functional and looks great!

Flooring Construction — Items underneath the deck level and weatherproof the flooring.

How The Godfrey Hotel Chicago Does Laundry

Today we want to show you something that people other than hospitality employees rarely get to see – the laundry room at a luxury hotel. It’s even more unusual because a lot of boutique hotels outsource their laundry services elsewhere.

At the Godfrey Hotel Chicago, we’re different in that we want to maintain high-quality linens and towels, and by keeping laundry in house, we can ensure that it’s done right and to our high quality standards. The washers and dryers you see below aren’t even the most interesting part!

Laundry Washing Machine — Washing machines in the laundry room at the Godfrey Hotel Chicago.

Laundry Dryer — A new laundry room dryer was installed recently.

We promised you earlier today on Instagram that we would tell you what the enormous machine below does, and trust us, you’ll want one in your own home. It folds laundry automatically! With the touch of a button, clean towels and linens are folded and prepped for guest rooms. Again, this is something many luxury hotels usually do not have in house, but because it keeps the supply of those fluffy towels and comfortable sheets replenished with ease, it sure is a gorgeous contraption.