Boutique hotels are small-capacity hotels that provide more personalized service than typical hotels. They typically have fewer than a hundred rooms, and are considered more "trendy" and "intimate", often due to their location in urban areas. They will usually also display a strong sense of aesthetic, and have a unique, un-homogenized character. They may be themed too, such as by having a focus on nature, environment, cuisine, history, community and cultural immersion, attentive service, or well-being.
14-624: The Broadview Hotel is a 58 room boutique hotel in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It is located at the intersection of Broadview Avenue and Queen Street East in Toronto's Riverside neighbourhood. Built in 1893, the building was originally a hall with retail and office space and later converted into a hotel. Until 2014, the establishment was occupied by the New Broadview House Hotel , a hotel and boarding house housing low-income persons with
28-449: A boutique as opposed to a department store , to which chain hotels were compared. In recent times, boutique hotels have grown in popularity, corresponding with the general public's increased interest in individualized service. Many hotel chains have begun to focus on creating subsidiary hotels to establish smaller, boutique-style hotels, or in acquiring previously independent boutique hotels. Boutique hotels are typically furnished in
42-438: A strip club named Jilly's on its ground level. It was closed and converted to an up-scale establishment with several restaurants and a roof patio. The Richardsonian Romanesque style structure was built for Archibald Dingman and designed by Robert Ogilvie as a commercial hub and public hall known as Dingman's Hall. Its design includes arched windows and a tower characteristic of Romanesque Revival. The southeast vertical edge of
56-565: A themed, stylish, and/or aspirational manner with distinctive concepts. These concepts often reflect the local culture of the neighborhoods in which the hotels are located. Typically, these hotels are designed to have a more "intimate" feel than many larger hotel chains. Boutique hotels are commonly found in the city centers of London, New York City, Miami , New Orleans , and Los Angeles . They are also found in resort destinations and may be furnished with amenities such as spas, yoga, and painting classes. Blakes Hotel Blakes Hotel
70-678: Is a 5-star hotel in London, and considered one of the world's first boutique hotels . It is at 33 Roland Gardens in South Kensington . It was established by London hotelier and designer Anouska Hempel , and contains eclectic artifacts collected by Hempel during her international travels. Known for protecting its clients's privacy from the paparazzi, it often accommodates celebrities. Regular guests have included Princess Margaret ; Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York ; actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Lindsay Lohan ; and supermodel Kate Moss . . The hotel
84-1017: Is also home to a Mediterranean -style restaurant and an exclusive lounge named Blakes Below, which debuted in 2016. The film was mentioned as a plot point in Sofia Coppola 's 2020 film On the Rocks . The hotel's 45 rooms were designed with varied influences; Asian, Moroccan and Colonial styles are conspicuous. The single rooms contain French double beds with blacks and whites in an eclectic style. The double rooms are styled as Indenture or Provençal design, including antique swan beds. The Director's Double has European king-sized beds which are either French gilded antique swan or four-poster. The Luxury Suites, decorated in various styles, have European king-sized four-poster beds with extra high ceilings and their own balconies with French windows. The Library Suite has hidden cupboards behind fake bookshelves, silk wall hangings, and
98-513: Is part of an ongoing gentrification of the neighbourhood. The developers began the process of moving 45 long-term tenants and closed Jilly's that July. The tenants, many of whom received disability or social assistance, were rehoused through a partnership between Streetcar, Dream Unlimited, the City of Toronto government , and WoodGreen Community Services. The developers paid first and last months' rent and paid WoodGreen to hire two staff persons to assist
112-523: The 1940s. By the 1970s, it was the Broadview House, a boarding house renting rooms by the week, with a strip club (later known as Jilly's) on the main floor. On May 13, 2014, Streetcar Developments and Dream Unlimited announced their purchase of the Hotel, announcing they would close the hotel and redevelop it into a 58-room boutique hotel with a ground floor restaurant and a rooftop bar. The redevelopment
126-519: The 1980s in major cities such as London , New York , and San Francisco . There is debate about who started the boutique hotel concept. Blakes Hotel in South Kensington, London , designed by Anouska Hempel , and the Bedford by Bill Kimptom in Union Square, San Francisco, both founded in 1981, may have started the trend. The term "boutique hotel" was coined by Steve Rubell, who compared Morgans Hotel to
140-501: The building is rounded using curved, elongated bricks. The building's gray lintels above the windows were likely carved from Credit Valley sandstone, popularly used during Toronto's Victorian era. The east and south exterior walls feature 21 terra cotta relief sculptures each with a unique image, often including a human face. The building had the Canadian Bank of Commerce as a tenant on the ground floor and doctors' and lawyers' offices on
154-475: The former Jilly's. The new facility will also have two event spaces, a cafe/bar and two other restaurants. There is also a space displaying memorabilia from Jilly's, such as posters, dancing poles and entertainers' lockers. The building uses extensive lighting to highlight the brickwork. 43°39′32″N 79°21′00″W / 43.658993°N 79.350075°W / 43.658993; -79.350075 Boutique hotel Boutique hotels first began appearing in
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#1732884604201168-463: The middle floors. Atop the building were two public halls which acted as a venue for concerts and assemblies. In 1907, the building was sold to Thomas J. Edwards who hired architect George Wallace Gouinlock to transform Dingman's Hall into The Broadview Hotel, which let rooms for $ 1.50 or more a night. It was known as the Lincoln Hotel for a time in the 1930s before reverting to its original name in
182-403: The renovation was the addition of a glassed-in rooftop restaurant on the building's north side. While the bulk of the building is four stories high, the rooftop restaurant and the hotel tower are on higher levels. As part of the redevelopment, the owners renamed the hotel from the "New Broadview Hotel" to "The Broadview Hotel". Some of the guest rooms feature prints of pin-up girls, a reminder of
196-463: The tenants in finding new homes, Sleep Country contributed mattresses, and The Furniture Barn contributed furnishings In late 2016, the exterior of the building had completed renovations. Black cornices that were removed in prior years were recreated based on period photos. The renovation was awarded a Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation. A major addition during
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