Brenton Hotel

Brenton Hotel in Newport, Rhode Island, is the town's first new-build hotel in nearly 30 years. Just across the street from the harbor marina and its population of sailboats, yachts, and sloops, entering the Brenton Hotel is like taking a step back in time to an era when ships and sailing were integral to the city's economy and culture.

Presiding over the corner of America's Cup Avenue and Long Wharf Street, this ultra-modern building was designed with Newport's history of grand architecture in mind. Taking cues from local landmarks like the 18th century Old Colony House and the 19th century Opera House, the hotel's style is a mélange of the contemporary and historic: huge floor-to-ceiling windows take up a majority of the façade are punctuated by nautical elements familiar to East Coasters like mullioned windows, white trim, and balconies echoing the idiosyncratic widow's walks of eras past. 

Shiplap adorns the hotel's rounded entry tower, evocative of Cape Cod lighthouses and New England clapboard-sided homes, adding one more nautical touch to take you back to the world of colonial merchant ships, pirates, mansions, and yacht races.