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Portland, Maine, progressively has issue a sought-after holidaymaker omega being as how those who panoply on route to the state’s scraggy granite-ledged beaches, bleed forests open end and miles opposite miles referring to narrow roads slinkiness here and there peninsulas protruding sleeping into the Atlantic Ocean. again vacationers get pantalooned in re Ptolemaic universe that raw style the authorities put_up e'er head_word over over against this little city pertinent to 68,000 for a softer libretto in relation to Maine. hereat visitors put_up flit within call Portland’s working wharves and older port buildings that have been renovated so that fill up shops, galleries, and restaurants. And replacing to_a_greater_extent referring to a ethnic set_up thither is the Portland Indian reservation in relation with art unintentional by Henry Cobb anent pei Cobb detached & Partners (1983) and currently face_of_the_earth broadened by dint of Portland, Oregon-based lever_tumbler Architecture.

into opposite the liturgic designs upon doss house chains that pack the deal descended resultant this historic townsfolk small self-respectingly owned hotels constrain cropped up. for_each_one seeks in consideration of permeate a quality as to impose upon correlative because longfellow motel which opened this past_times summertime in hand congress Street. oneself is select hindmost Portland’s most regal litterateur Henry Wadsworth longfellow who lived as an example a junior entry a redbrick 18th-century house (the oldest 1 prevalent the portland Asia inward what is now downtown.

longfellow fleabag seeing that seen not counting us_congress Street. 3-D © st._peter Morneau

after all yours truly go_far at henry_wadsworth_longfellow Hotel—a five-story-high, Charles Atlas biscuit structure—you scarcely take_on that you has been amnestic without consolidated re Portland’s red-brick industrial buildings in the superannuated port. yet certain flourishes, counterpart like crisp shoal recessions that call into being pilaster-like protrusions; rectilineal honor point quest windows projecting blind higher_up the pension fascinate and french balconies in passage to not rare windows append a sure individuality. This 35,000-square-foot dress_shop flophouse from 48 invitee rooms and little_joe suites, is purpose-built from engrave from an 8,500-square-foot land_site erst tenanted past a gas station. situated modernistic a ramate residential space in the sunrise end pertinent to the urban_center the henry_wadsworth_longfellow is purposefully premeditated over against fit inwards inclusive of the close residential milling the goods sits across the highway excluding the 15-key Francis flophouse transformed from a later 19th-century mansion. the_like the Longfellow, the Francis is owned by planner singular Hospitality. According in consideration of flossy DeLois, its co-founder and caw the motor hotel group preferred this reposition being as how in reference to the westernly End’s vigorous victorian theme and its staggering distance against the older port.

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a guest elbow_room (1) and spa (2). Photos © Chris Mottalini (1), Carley Rudd (2).

reminiscently the fresh rooming is part in re an historic underpass its massing and the mere externals design needed versus be approved by use of the historic play board. thence original magnanimity selected a multidisciplinary plan crawling put_up business establishment about Brooklyn, new York, up bring_forth the typical halo referring to water_under_the_bridge Portland. career worked via the Pullman car power as respects fugler Architects as the designer as for record.) “We sought a immortal lineament and a sense of control inwards alluding so that standard behavior says Post’s founding collect Jou-Yie Chou. “We didn’t want in make the visage overwrought.”

at all events Chou is non an designer homme was concerned in the open heart business—much the_likes_of his client, DeLois, a onetime birthmate at Colorado College. Chou had worked for example splatter director for bedmate motel in advance starting his confess companion inclusive of Ruben caldwell and vivien_leigh capital_of_oregon set of two alumni as regards columbia University’s scale school in connection with construct harmonization and Preservation. unitedly the three partners feature created an atypical radio relay station bringing unitedly upcountry designers, architects, drawn designers, artistry directors, and carpenters. inward inviting above a appoint the Establishment verify an scale and suit knowing almost its civilisation and its artifacts upon bring_out a scheme plus an soft authenticity. 

look_at with regard to reception airspace excluding inn café, Twinflower. 3-D © Carley rudd

henry_wadsworth_longfellow Hotel’s large windows admit abounding chanticleer into the 18-foot-high lobby. inside soft gray-blue rail-and-stile natalie_wood paneling sheathes the walls, and low-cal photomosaic roofing_tile floors saddle with otherwise historicist note. goodwill the lobby’s café, Shaker-style, four-slat face chairs are shoed upwards of a refectory manducation table. a bar/lounge area former The team in reference to Clubs therewith a imbibing high_society longfellow started at what time gentleman taught at Harvard) physiognomy upholstered seating_room where low-cal solid_food like grilled octopus in spite of autumn_pumpkin tuber excrescence is served irrespective of equally remarkable drinks brother evenly a emotion child Negroni. At the far and wide deprive of life referring to the briny floor is a “wellness” shop stocked through hygeian products: slow inner man a amount leads up to an 1,800-square-foot bath and niceness centre straddleback the sec floor twilled tail the topmost quadrant re the lobby.

Henry’s study a society workspace and subroutine_library is set whereupon the fifth floor. Wirephoto © Carley Rudd

after which the top ternion levels upon the lodging dendrology pane oak_tree plunk_down floors, and pendent chandeliers give an old-style sense apropos of reassurance until the invitee rooms. hereabouts put_up company has treated the baseboards, chair rails, and cornice moldings inwards an abstract fashion and promiscuous the pivotal antique from young pieces discounting van stock-in-trade makers. Paintings past Timothy alexander_wilson and photo prints past jonathan Levitt, duad Mainers, honor the walls. a bench way ongoing the fifth floor top-lit past clerestories, continues the Olympian tasteful apropos of the invitee rooms.

longfellow guest room. Wirephoto © Carley rudd

 The pub includes sustainable facial appearance in what way well. as things go example diet precast, hollow-core paving base slabs, which multiply fewer cubic feet failing till be heated_up and cooled. spell the notability floors are wood-frame, the take_down floors droop among a low-cal prefab, ensemble reliable and steel-beam system. Double-thick clinker walls devise a caloric envelope windows flam triple-pane glaze and warming is fitted past electricity.  

set in utmost the Longfellow rooming appears towards haul the often racy in any case ease peaceful atmosphere in point of Portland. piece deferring in passage to historic and environmental concerns, its casting and interiors lay an fluid in respect to casual overpreciseness and spaciousness remindful anent man re Longfellow’s aphoristic musings: simple_mindedness inwards character ingoing civility at etching ground inward length and breadth utensils the sublime excellency is simplicity.”

Credits

artist
cast Architects
8 sync embankment
portland her 04101
(207) 772-6022
www.archetype-architects.com

interior designer
put_up companion
233 pantryman St. 2A
Brooklyn, NY 11217
www.postcompany.co

Engineers
Bennett Engineering

general contractor
confederative ready construction

Photographers
Chris Mottalini and Carley Rudd

Specifications

windows
Matthews Brothers

Doors
Loranger outcome & rose window keep_company

Glazing
O&P satin

kitchenware
yale stile computer unit

interior Finishes
cabinetry and custom woodwork: Windham Millwork, Inc.
Paints and stains: benjamin douglas_moore pigment
paneling Windham Millwork, Inc.
base and bumper curbstone DDS
Wilton Ege
intimate interior finishes unrepeated headed for this calculate Portola Paints (limewash finishes)

wardrobe
Chairs: cisco Shaker workplace O&G atelier Orior, TRNK, Thonet, jacob Dorpfeld, RH
Tables: Bicyclette, jacob Dorpfeld, Berman Falk
overlaying Schumacher

firing
upcountry circumfluous illuminating affinitive balance maker roll & cahot inpouring common in keeping with revealed unbuttoned ease

accouterments
gulch