Features
47 guest rooms
Studio 9: Recording/Recording/Performance/Gathering space that opened in 2019
Breakfast inclusive
Creative meeting spaces
Partnership with MoCA pool/hot tub
Retail shop
Lobby art gallery
Hotel cat
Modified breakfast room service
Project Value
$10 Million
Development and design
Historic tax credits
Interior design
FFE selection and purchasing
Hotel programming
Square Feet
+/- 50,000
Project Team
$10 Million
Architect: Ann McCallum
Construction Manager: BIGS Construction
Design and Program: Main Street Hospitality
Press
Press
5 Best Places to Go in October
– Town and Country
Press
“A gorgeous boutique hotel that does boutique right—that is, by mixing it with creature comforts”
– Huffington Post
The Stewardship of Historic Row Houses
Porches was developed and opened in 2001, and Main Street in its current form has been stewarding the historic property for 10 years. Major projects including development and building of Studio 9, a 3000 sq ft state of the art gathering space and recording studio in 2019, and redesign of existing buildings has been ongoing and totals over $10M in projects overseen by our project management team.
Powerful partnerships,
exceptional results
As a world-class team that owns, operates, develops and designs unique hotels, we build lasting and aligned ownership relationships to help our partners build sustainable long-term value. Our nuanced approach and best-in-class tools deliver exceptional results for our family of hotels.
It’s no exaggeration. I can’t imagine MASS MoCA absent Porches.
Porches is more than a conveniently adjacent hotel. The Inn, and its excellent staff and management, are truly partners in hospitality. Whether it means hosting bands and their entourage over a 3-day music festival or providing meeting facilities and catering for a strategic planning retreat for our board of trustees, or by becoming a hip, go-to venue for a rollicking post-theater swimming party, Porches is the perfect place. The Porches has welcomed important artists, critics, writers…but also of course our patrons and guests, with graciousness, and a friendly style that has become something of an institutional hallmark. The fact that we have co-conspired to build a robust and steadily growing wedding and special events business — drawing on the resources, contacts and marketing channels of both the hotel and the museum — has not been lost upon our financial team!
The beneficial effect goes beyond our institution. Porches was in the advance guard of a new wave of investment and entrepreneurial activity in downtown North Adams. Porches ownership and staff, planted a flag. They planted it early, and they sustained and then expanded their investment over time. Now nearly two decades into the relationship, I am still learning the ways in which art, culture, hospitality, and “socioeconomic development interact. It is far deeper and more important than I ever imagined it would be.”
– JOSEPH THOMPSON Founding Director MASS MoCA
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