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White Elephant hotels
Nantucket's harbour inns and beach houses carry their coastal manner into a wider resort family.
White Elephant Resorts is New England Development's hotel group, best known for the Nantucket houses. The White Elephant hotel is dated 1920 in the atlas. Jared Coffin House is dated 1845. The Wauwinet is dated 1875. White Elephant Palm Beach is dated 1924, with 32 rooms. The Cottages at Nantucket Boat Basin are dated 2002.
5 White Elephant hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by New England Development
- Worldwide: Five houses are filed in the atlas, four on Nantucket and one in Palm Beach. The White Elephant hotel is dated 1920, with 117 rooms. Jared Coffin House is dated 1845, with 43 rooms. The Wauwinet is dated 1875, with 32 rooms.
- On the atlas: 1 High Luxury, 3 Core Luxury, 1 Accessible Luxury
History
White Elephant Resorts is New England Development's hotel group, best known for the Nantucket houses. The White Elephant hotel is dated 1920 in the atlas. Jared Coffin House is dated 1845. The Wauwinet is dated 1875. White Elephant Palm Beach is dated 1924, with 32 rooms. The Cottages at Nantucket Boat Basin are dated 2002.
Timeline
- 1845 — Jared Coffin House, on Nantucket, is dated 1845 in the atlas, 43 rooms.
- 1875 — The Wauwinet is dated 1875 in the atlas, 32 rooms.
- 1920 — White Elephant Nantucket is dated 1920 in the atlas, 117 rooms.
- 1924 — White Elephant Palm Beach is dated 1924 in the atlas, 32 rooms.
- 2002 — The Cottages at Nantucket Boat Basin are dated 2002 in the atlas, 29 rooms.
The houses to know
- The Wauwinet, Nantucket, United States — Nantucket's only Relais & Châteaux hotel first welcomed guests in 1875 as the Wauwinet House, named for a historic sachem of the island's east end, and still sits at the edge of the Great Point Wildlife Sanctuary with private beaches on both bay and ocean.
- White Elephant Palm Beach, Palm Beach, United States — White Elephant Palm Beach began in 1924, when Colonel E.
- White Elephant Nantucket, Nantucket, United States — White Elephant Nantucket has watched Nantucket Harbor from Brant Point since the 1920s, 117 rooms and cottages aimed at the water and the ferry run.
- The Cottages at Nantucket Boat Basin, Nantucket, United States — Twenty-nine cottages sit on the docks and slips of Nantucket Boat Basin at Swain's Wharf, many named for eighteenth-century whaling ships, in a harbor whose wharves go back to the 1720s.
- Jared Coffin House, Nantucket, United States — Whaling merchant Jared Coffin built Nantucket's first mansion in 1845, a three-story brick Greek Revival on Broad Street, and the brick-and-slate walls came through the Great Fire of 1846.
Newest openings
- None of the open houses filed in the atlas carry a 2024 or later date.
Opening next
- No named unopened hotel was verified.
Every White Elephant hotel on the atlas
United States
- The Wauwinet — Nantucket · High Luxury
- The Cottages at Nantucket Boat Basin — Nantucket · Core Luxury
- White Elephant Nantucket — Nantucket · Core Luxury
- White Elephant Palm Beach — Palm Beach · Core Luxury
- Jared Coffin House — Nantucket · Accessible Luxury
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