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"The boutique hotel’s 42 guest rooms are spread across four historic buildings, including a 19th-century structure that housed the official State Bank of New York and a Georgian stone home that dates back to 1680. Though archaic, out-of-date lodgings these are not: the interiors are by Robert McKinley of Studio McKinley, with guest room walls painted in Farrow & Ball shades, Smeg refrigerators, walnut desks made in Red Hook, and plaid chairs that wink to Jacques Adnet’s. McKinley has said his visual inspiration was an extended family inheriting the property, each member assigned a different building to pursue their own aesthetic fantasies while adhering to a common thread. An added bonus? The excellent on-site restaurant." - Elise Taylor