Reimagined Motor Lodge.
The Catskills pattern of the last decade: buy a 1960s motor lodge nobody wanted, keep the long-balcony geometry, gut the rooms, fill them with design. Scribner's, Graham & Co., Starlite all did some version. The appeal is the footprint — 20–40 rooms, each with an exterior-facing door, arranged around a courtyard or along a ridge. It scales small and it photographs well.
East Rock Inn
Eighteen-room boutique motel at the base of East Rock Mountain, minutes from downtown Great Barrington.
Eastwind Windham
Scandi-mid-century lodge plus Lushna glamping cabins, with a wood-barrel sauna.
Greenporter Hotel
An airy reworked motor inn in central Greenport — cheap, charming, walkable to the wineries.
Hotel Dylan
A Woodstock native's Novogratz-designed revival of a '70s bi-level motel. Turntables in every room.
Journey East Hampton
A minimalist motor-lodge revival between East Hampton and Amagansett, playing the Piaule role for the South Fork.
Rivertown Lodge
A 1920s Hudson cinema reborn as the town's most quietly confident hotel, via Workstead.
Scribner's Catskill Lodge
The original Catskills Scandi motor-lodge revival. On a hillside in Hunter.
Seesaw’s Lodge
A 1940s ski lodge above Peru, reopened as a Scandi-minimal retreat. Bromley across the road.
Silver Sands
A rejuvenated beachfront motel with 1,400 feet of private sand. Condé Nast Readers' Choice 2024.
Sound View Greenport
A 1950s roadside motel on the Long Island Sound, redone with a Halfcall-meets-Scandi sensibility.
Starlite Motel
Wes Anderson energy, Shaker bones, pink and turquoise doors.
The Graham & Co.
The Catskills design-motel that started the whole thing.
Tourists
A 1960s motel reimagined by Wilco's bassist and a Brooklyn design crew. Sea Ranch on the Hoosic River.
Zey Hotel
Zach Erdem's art-forward 10-room boutique — the opposite of generic Southampton chintz.