At the intersection of State Street and Anacapa in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, a five-storey building in the city's mandatory Spanish Colonial Revival style places the Kimpton Canary Hotel in direct conversation with the courthouse, the county administration building, and the broader architectural consensus that has governed this city since the 1925 earthquake rebuild. White stucco, terracotta barrel-tile rooflines, dark-painted iron balustrades, and a rooftop pergola of exposed timber rafters visible in the images all honor that civic compact — not as pastiche but as genuine urban continuity. The 97-room property was renovated in the early 2020s with interiors that draw on the work of Studio Collective, who calibrated the spaces to feel simultaneously rooted in California tradition and loose enough for a contemporary sensibility. The guest rooms pair dark espresso-finished barley-twist four-poster beds — their cane canopy panels nodding to the Spanish Colonial craft vocabulary of the exterior — with sage-green wainscoting, dark-stained hardwood floors, and Moroccan-influenced inlaid side tables that deepen the Mediterranean thread running through the building. A gallery wall of abstract, graphic prints in earthy ochres and charcoal keeps the rooms from slipping into pure historicism. The restaurant dining room shifts register entirely: white-painted exposed beams, channeled linen banquettes, live-edge walnut tables, and powder-blue accent chairs achieve a bright, California-coastal lightness. From the rooftop pool, the Santa Barbara Channel and the gilded dome of the county courthouse spread out across the skyline beneath striped fringed umbrellas.

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The 4-star, boutique Canary Hotel is the only luxury hotel in downtown Santa Barbara and the only hotel with a rooftop pool and 360 degree views. Canary Hotel places you in the center of Santa Barbara's beaches, golf courses and world-class shopping. Named one of the Conde Nast Readers Choice Top Hotels in Southern California and one of the 500 Best Hotels in the World by Travel + Leisure Magazine for 2014.