The Press Hotel

The Press Hotel occupies the former Portland Press Herald building at 119 Exchange Street in Portland, Maine's Old Port district, a neighborhood of 19th-century brick warehouses converted into the city's most concentrated area for acclaimed restaurants, craft breweries, galleries, and boutiques. The 1924 landmark structure was sensitively restored and opened as a boutique hotel, with interiors throughout referencing the building's journalistic heritage—typeface motifs, archival newsroom photographs, and curated artwork by Maine artists fill the hallways and lobby. The 110 guest rooms and suites range from well-proportioned standard rooms to corner suites with views over the Old Port's cobblestone streets; room sizes are typical of a historic urban conversion, but finishes and furnishings are contemporary and high quality. Union, the hotel's restaurant and cocktail bar, draws hotel guests and Portland residents with a seasonal menu featuring Maine produce and seafood and a considered craft cocktail program. A compact but well-equipped fitness center is available. Valet parking simplifies arrival in the Old Port, where street parking is consistently difficult and expensive. The hotel is dog-friendly and its location puts guests within a short walk of the Portland Museum of Art, the Working Waterfront, the Casco Bay Ferry Terminal, and the city's highest density of restaurants. The Press Hotel regularly appears on best boutique hotel lists in the northeastern United States and books quickly in summer and around major Portland events. Meeting rooms and reliable connectivity make the property practical for business travelers as well as leisure visitors.