"Coastal New England is mostly known for sleepy seaside towns full of charming Victorian houses. But Salem, barely half an hour outside of Boston, is properly urban, perhaps nowhere more so than Essex Street, the pedestrian shopping district that’s home to the 44-room Hotel Salem. With its loft-style rooms and its mid-century modernist décor, it’s something of an ode to the downtown department store, in an era when there was still plenty of glamour associated with the concept." - Tablet Hotels
