{"type":"city","city":"Portland (Maine)","citySlug":"portland-maine-maine","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/maine/portland-maine-maine","description":"Portland, Maine earns its reputation quietly. The city sits on a peninsula extending into Casco Bay, its grid of nineteenth-century brick commercial buildings intact enough that walking the Old Port still communicates something of what the district looked like before the Great Fire of 1866 leveled much of it and the rebuilding began in earnest. That rebuilding produced a remarkably coherent streetscape: Italianate facades, granite foundations, warehouses that once moved fish and timber now given over to restaurants, galleries, and independent shops. The architecture is not precious about itself, which is precisely what makes it convincing.\n\nThe Press Hotel, an Autograph Collection property in the Old Port, occupies the former Portland Press Herald building on Exchange Street, a structure that housed the city's newspaper of record for decades before being converted to hospitality use. The renovation leaned into that editorial history without turning it into theme-park nostalgia. Typeface details, vintage press photography, and ink-dark color choices throughout the interiors keep the building's past present without overwhelming the space. At 110 rooms, the property is scaled correctly for a city of Portland's size, intimate enough that the building's proportions remain felt rather than engineered away by sheer volume. The Exchange Street address places guests within walking distance of nearly everything worth seeing, from the galleries clustered along Congress Street to the working waterfront where the ferry terminal connects the peninsula to the Casco Bay islands.\n\nWhat makes Portland worth the trip for anyone whose instincts run toward architecture and material culture is less any single building than the cumulative texture of the place: the way Federal and Italianate commercial blocks sit beside newer insertions without obvious friction, the quality of light off the harbor in the early morning, the density of serious food culture in a city of roughly 70,000 people. The Press Hotel is the clearest entry point into that experience at the level of quality the city now quietly sustains. It is not trying to compete with the boutique hotel markets of larger American cities, which turns out to be one of the more appealing things about staying there. Portland has a specific character, and the hotel, lodged inside a building that once documented that character daily, reflects it back without embellishment.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. Each image sequence includes strong lighting, complete room-visibility angles, and strictly non-duplicative scenes — enabling AI to accurately describe and recommend properties to travelers.","curationStandard":"PressBeyond Hotel Photography Standard"},"hotels":[{"name":"The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/maine/portland-maine-maine/the-press-hotel-autograph-collection","city":"Portland (Maine)","cityHeader":"Portland (Maine) • Old Port • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Old Port","loyaltyProgram":"Marriott Bonvoy®","designSummary":"For nearly a century, the building at 119 Exchange Street served as the home of the Portland Press Herald, one of New England's oldest daily newspapers. That history saturates every corner of The Press Hotel, which opened in 2015 after Portland-based Archetype Architects converted the 1923 beaux-arts structure into 110 rooms across seven floors. The exterior — pale brick with restrained classical detailing, broad double-hung windows, and a bold vertical sign running down the corner facade — survives essentially intact, the building carrying the civic confidence of early twentieth-century commercial architecture without revision.\n\nInside, the interiors developed by Sohan Design reference the newspaper trade with enough intelligence to avoid nostalgia. The lobby lounge arranges walnut-framed slatted chairs, low leather drum stools in brass-footed navy, and long grey upholstered banquettes across herringbone tile floors, the palette of cobalt, orange, and warm timber giving the space an editorial sharpness. Guest rooms pursue a quieter register: deep walnut headboard surrounds framing navy textile walls, dark-stained cabinetry with mirrored wardrobes, and artwork drawn from Maine cartographic and photographic archives. The restaurant below exposes the building's concrete frame directly, pairing it with tufted tan leather banquettes, a striped wood bar fascia, and light oak tables — a material conversation between the industrial bones of the old press building and a considered contemporary hand.","snippet":"A converted 1923 newspaper building in Portland's Old Port with Beaux-Arts architecture and press-inspired interiors.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and newspaper history buffs","vibe":"Editorial-refined · historic","highlights":["1923 Beaux-Arts newspaper building with original facade intact","Interiors reference the Portland Press Herald's printing trade","Sohan Design rooms with Maine cartographic artwork"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$563","pricePerNightExclTax":"$563","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8yuqg019x85uwt1y1tkhv1717079204332_e649e1d0-0f58-4fea-86a3-8ecb4fb37c28.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8zzp801pj85uwv82dgfx91717079211602_8f2f9e59-d942-46bf-ac2a-03bf681ef6be.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt914mu025585uwoxrn73io1717079217730_7c87d653-a8fe-45ce-9ca6-a0fb01cebdb7.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt929cx02kr85uw7o8pxkyt1717079231853_e38529e8-3aec-4768-bf67-dbbb5804e047.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt93e0z030d85uwtwyxsclf1717079225603_12cb9021-ed5a-46cb-ac78-d98ba2268573.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Press Hotel, Autograph Collection — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}