A quiet refuge you can walk out of in any direction.
Sixty-four rooms on a calm, walkable block in downtown Portland — soundproofed, locally staffed, and the lowest publicly available rate when you book direct.
Verified by the people who count — not by us.
- 96 Walk Score · 11 restaurants, 4 theaters & the convention center within 5 minutes
- 4◆ AAA Diamond rating, with a 98.2/100 cleanliness average across 14 consecutive inspections
- 4.7★ Across 4,820+ verified reviews on Google, Tripadvisor & Booking.com
- 27yrs Independently owned and operated by the Marston family since 1998
The same room. A noticeably better stay.
Every night, we check twelve major booking sites. The rate on our own site is publicly lower — and the room you book through us arrives with three small extras an OTA can't add at the front desk.
Via an OTA
- Standard published rate, no adjustment at check-in
- Breakfast charged à la carte
- 11:00 AM checkout, no flexibility
- Support handled through a third-party call center
- $0 in on-property credits
Booking direct with us
- Best Rate Guarantee — publicly 20% lower than Expedia or Booking.com, verified nightly
- Complimentary continental breakfast each morning
- 2:00 PM late checkout, on us
- Reserved by our 24/7 on-site concierge team — average 9.4 years with the property
- $15 downtown transit credit per night, applied to your key
Built for sleep, not for show.
Every one of our 64 rooms was engineered around the same goal: that you stop hearing the city the moment the door closes. Here's how.
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Triple-pane windows
Floor-to-ceiling glazing with a third interior acoustic pane, factory-tuned to drop street noise by roughly 38 decibels. The window seals, the room goes quiet.
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Solid-core doors
Each guest room is closed off by a solid hardwood door with full perimeter seals — not the hollow-core doors you hear through in most downtown hotels. Hallway traffic stays in the hallway.
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White-noise machines, standard
A bedside LectroFan in every room — three fan timbres, three ambient tones, and a sunrise alarm. Set it, forget it, sleep through the 4 AM garbage truck.
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Housekeeping that knows quiet
Our housekeeping team — average tenure 9.4 years — has a written noise protocol: hallway shoes, closed doors, no vacuums before 9 AM. AAA has scored our cleanliness at 98.2/100 for fourteen inspections running.
Walk out the door. You're already there.
Our block sits on the soft edge of downtown — close enough that everything is a stroll, far enough that none of it keeps you up at night. A few of the neighbors worth knowing.
Eleven restaurants on Carlow & 4th
From a wood-fired ramen counter to a 32-seat tasting room that pours only Oregon wines. The block is its own dinner reservation.
Four live theaters
Two independent stages, one historic vaudeville house, and the city's oldest repertory cinema — all showing something worth changing out of day clothes for.
The convention center
Close enough to walk your rolling case over in the morning — far enough that you don't hear a single keynote from your room.
The central transit hub
Light rail, streetcar, and the airport express all converge four blocks north. Direct bookings include a $15 transit credit per night, on us.
Same family. Same block. Twenty-seven years.
My parents opened this building in 1998 with forty-eight rooms, a card table for a front desk, and a theory that an independent hotel could out-care any chain in the city. They were right — slowly, then suddenly.
We're now sixty-four rooms across six floors, freshly renovated in March 2023, and still the only downtown hotel on this block that hasn't changed hands. Thirty-eight of us work here full-time. Our head concierge has been with us nineteen years. Our executive housekeeper, fourteen. That's not a brand promise; that's just who's at the desk when you check in.
Because we carry no franchise fees and answer to no corporate parent, the money you spend with us stays here — in the rooms, in the staff, and in the eighty-six-percent repeat-guest rate we're quietly proud of. If you've stayed with us before, thank you. If you haven't, we'd love to host you.
— The Marston Family, owners since 1998