Situated in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood, Hotel Ulysses is the latest opening from the ASH NYC team. This 116-room property, set in the historic Latrobe building, borrows from Baltimore’s rebellious spirit where spaces transport you between overlapping eras and influences. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the contrast between the hotel’s two F&B spaces. On the ground floor, Ash–Bar, the all-day café that serves up pastries, milkshakes, and homemade gelato references elements of streamline moderne. Meanwhile, the late-night drinking parlor, Bloom’s, is an exercise in maximalism, drawing influences from the fantasy of Art Deco movie palaces with kitschy mirrored surfaces flanked by crimson banquettes and plum velvet barstools.
Photo: Courtesy of Manchester Hotel
Recently opened in the heart of horse country and the bourbon capital of the world, Lexington, Kentucky’s first high-end boutique hotel, The Manchester is bringing a cool new energy to Manchester Street’s Distillery District. Guest rooms evoke the rich hues of the Bluegrass with barrel vaulted plastered ceilings and leather detailing nodding to the city’s spirited culture and long history of equestrianism, while its public spaces, which were created for both guests and locals alike, feature a bespoke bottle shop with a curated selection of local bourbons and ryes, an ode to its historic neighborhood lined with bourbon distilleries, breweries, and bars.
Photo: Courtesy of Nine Orchard/ Stephen Kent Johnson