Beauport Hotel Gloucester
A 2016 oceanfront boutique on Pavilion Beach — 94 rooms, rooftop pool, 1606 restaurant.
The Beauport Hotel Gloucester is a 2016 oceanfront boutique on Pavilion Beach at the working harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts — ninety-four rooms in a contemporary clapboard-and-shingle building with a rooftop pool, the 1606 restaurant, and one of the few proper hotel openings on Cape Ann in recent decades. It's the rare contemporary hotel built to fit a New England coastal town's existing visual code rather than fight it.
Cape Ann sits north of Boston and is a working coastal landscape — fishing fleets, granite quarries, art colonies (Rocky Neck, the Cape Ann Art Association). Gloucester is its largest town. The Beauport's location, directly on the harbor at Pavilion Beach, puts it in the working-waterfront context rather than at a generic resort site.
The setting
On Pavilion Beach at the foot of Stacy Boulevard, in downtown Gloucester. The walk to Main Street's restaurants and shops is five minutes. The Fisherman's Memorial (the bronze "Gloucester Fisherman" statue) and the Stacy Boulevard waterfront walkway are immediately at the property's edge. Rocky Neck, the small art colony, is ten minutes by car or twenty by foot.
The drive from Boston is forty-five minutes; from the New Hampshire border, half an hour. Logan Airport is fifty minutes south.
The building
A four-story contemporary clapboard-and-shingle structure designed to fit Gloucester's coastal vernacular — gabled roofs, shingle siding weathering gray, white trim, peaked dormers. The interior is refined-Americana coastal: light interiors, restrained palette, oversize windows facing the harbor, a rooftop pool deck that's heavily photographed.
The architecture is deferential. It looks like a building Gloucester might have built in 1896, executed with 2016 systems and finish.
The rooms
Ninety-four rooms across the four floors. Categories climb from compact rooms (around $495) up through harbor-view suites with private balconies, larger floor plans, and the better light. Beds are kings, linens are heavy, bathrooms are full. Harbor-side rooms face Pavilion Beach and the working harbor; town-side rooms face Stacy Boulevard.
The harbor-view rooms are the obvious ask.
Food & drink
1606 is the on-site dining room — contemporary New England with a heavy weight on Gloucester's working-fleet seafood (cod, haddock, lobster, day-boat fish). Open to non-guests. The rooftop bar (Mile Marker One) runs in season with cocktails and light food, with views across to the harbor and out toward Eastern Point.
On the property
A full boutique-hotel amenity stack.
- Rooftop pool and bar (seasonal)
- Spa with full menu
- 1606 restaurant
- Direct beach access (Pavilion Beach)
- Bicycles for the Stacy Boulevard waterfront walkway
- Open year-round
Who it's for
- Boston-area travelers doing a long weekend on Cape Ann
- Couples who want oceanfront access without committing to a Cape Cod drive
- Repeat North Shore visitors who've cycled through Rockport and Manchester
- Diners — 1606 has one of the better contemporary New England rooms north of Boston
Who it's not for
- Travelers seeking a small intimate inn — this is a 94-room hotel
- Anyone looking for a quieter, less-busy beach setting
- Travelers who want walking distance to a major sand-beach resort area
Nearby
Walk five minutes to downtown Gloucester for the working waterfront, Captain Joe's lobster, and the Cape Ann Museum. The Fisherman's Memorial and Stacy Boulevard walkway are immediately at the property's edge. Rocky Neck — the country's oldest continuously operating art colony — is ten minutes by car. Drive twenty minutes for Rockport's Bearskin Neck and the Motif No. 1 fishing shed (one of the most-painted buildings in America). Drive thirty minutes for Crane Beach in Ipswich, one of the better Massachusetts beaches. Salem is forty-five minutes south.
