The Dean Hotel

If you’re like me and enjoy a solid art history debate, a perfectly fluffed white duvet, a scotch - neat, (and after a few too many) a wee bit of karaoke, then The Dean is a place for you. Built around the history and culture of Providence, The Dean is a hotel that values collaboration with our neighbors. Filled with custom furniture, craftwork from local purveyors and found objects from Europe and beyond, The Dean revels in the details. This historical building has been elegantly transformed into a 52-room hotel in the heart of the Providence’s Downcity historic district. Come visit The Dean, we can’t wait to see you.

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TRAVEL + LEISURE - SEPTEMBER 1 2015

Along with its compelling rooms, the Dean also houses a beer hall, a karaoke corner, and a dimly lit cocktail bar. Why leave?

CONDE NAST TRAVELER - SEPTEMBER 1 2015

Thanks to hip Brooklyn design firm ASH NYC, a dash of urban hipness has landed in the leafy university town of Providence.

THRILLIST - JUNE 20 2015

There has been much praise for The Dean

JETSETTER - JUNE 17 2015

Providence's new Downcity hotel is a sexy steal.

GQ - JUNE 1 2015

GQ-iest place (by far) to stay in Providence.

THE NEW YORK TIMES - MAY 21 2015

A stylish, sophisticated hotel imbued with originality and the creative spirit of the Providence arts community.

MARTHA STEWART - APRIL 27 2015

Bare bones in the best possible way.

CONDE NAST TRAVELER - JANUARY 1 2015

Old school cool meets modern, masculine freshness at this boutique hotel designed by Ari Heckman of ASH NYC.

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST - JANUARY 2015

An acclaimed 52-room boutique property in Providence, Rhode Island, that is a catalyst for a new wave of urban revitalization there.

The Daily Mail - DECEMBER 5, 2014

Historic construction transformed into luxury, 52-room boutique hotel that maintains links with its past.

BUSINESS INSIDER - DECEMBER 1, 2014

The Deal Hotel is a 52-room hotel with unique room designs, a coffee bar, beer garden, and karaoke room. It combines a chic, modern look with some of the original designs to go with custom furniture, mosaic tile flooring, and antique artwork in each room.

CURBED - NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The one-time gentleman's club has been divided into four different parts: a restaurant, a coffee shop, a bar, and a karaoke lounge. The karaoke lounge, with its bright red lights, disco ball, leather banquettes, and retro vibe, pays homage to the former space.

REMODELISTA - NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The Dean’s interiors are the perfect draw for parents of students at Rhode Island School of Design and Brown Univer- sity, but the hotel is also young and ready for fun.

DWELL - OCTOBER 20, 2014

In Providence, Rhode Island, Ari Heckman and his design firm ASH NYC transform a century-old structure with a storied past into a boutique hotel that pays homage to its roots.

DIE ZEIT - OCTOBER 2014

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

White walls and chocolate-brown plank floors give the place an airy, laid-back feel, while neon signs and—for youngsters—metal bunk beds are quirky touches.

SLEEPER - SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2014

Real estate development and design firm ASH NYC has enlisted local artisans to transform a dilapidated building into a boutique hotel.

A HOTEL LIFE - AUGUST 2014

The Dean has everything you need (in one spot) to have an epic evening with friends.

AIR FRANCE MADAME - JULY / AUGUST 2014

Occupying a historic building in the heart of Providence, The Dean lives up to its motto: "Old school meets new school."

Hospitality Design - July 2014

The 52-room property represents ASH's first foray into hospitality

The Globe and Mail - July 25, 2014

Rhode Island's rockin' new hotel

EDIBLE RHODY - Summer 2014

A new brand of hospitality defines hip in Providence

Architectural Digest - June 2014

The city’s latest before-and-after triumph is The Dean, a 52-room downtown boutique hotel whose April debut instantly reenergized a hospitality scene dominated by big names like the Omni and the Biltmore.

AD France - May 30, 2014

A Night in Providence

Cool Hunting - May 12, 2014

That is The Dean hotel's charm: a hotel that uses its proximity to talented local artists and craftspeople to create something that feels fresh yet homey. It's an acknowledgment to the city's historic roots, artistic community and collegiate surroundings.

Financial Times: How To Spend It - May 22, 2014

The area has a hipster vibe thanks to an artsy crowd with a love for experimental cuisine and design-led architecture. And now, to match that in the hospitality stakes is The Dean Hotel.

Conde Nast Traveler 2014 Hot List

Every year, hundreds of great hotels open. We considered 510 this year alone, in 400 cities and 93 countries. The 2014 Hot List is a roundup of our very favorite 33 hotels to debut in the past year.

With a craft cocktail bar, a karaoke lounge, and a beer garden, The Dean is yet more proof that Providence is no longer a sleepy college town.

ELLE Decor - May 2014

The Dean, a just-opened 52-room hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, stakes out new aesthetic territory with its hip-ye-olde-New England vibe.

Casa Brutus - May 2014

Windows on the World

Yatzer - April 10, 2014

A stunning new boutique hotel right in the city centre which mixes poise and continental old-school class with an air of college fun and a relaxed attitude.

Rhode Island Monthly - April 2014

The Dean Hotel party was one to remember. It’s a scene. It’s a little obscene. And it’s just what Providence was waiting for.

Providence Journal - April 2, 2013

The city’s artsy-academic vibe is reflected at every turn. Neon signs with ambiguous phrases such as “Last Chances” and “First Times” hang on each floor; a quote from Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” is painted in giant letters on the side of the building; and the lobby is filled with international culture magazines.

New York Weddings - Summer 2014

Begin your night with cocktails at the Magdalenae Room, the hotel's bar, before chowing down on German fare at beer hall Faust. Come nighttime, hit The Boombox, the hotel's karaoke lounge.

Surface - April 2014

“He was truly the first to connect real, local experiences to a hotel experience,” Heckman says of Calderwood, adding, “I consider the Ace a pioneer for creating the type of hotel that I think a lot of hotels now aspire to be, which are these social, local places where the lobby is not a lobby; it’s a place where the community can come in.” The Dean lives up to this idea and expands upon it, establishing both a welcome hub for the gritty city’s creative culture and a tribute to its vibrant, eccentric history.

Curbed - March 26, 2014

Working on The Dean, a newly open 52-room boutique hotel filling a 1911 building that was once a brothel, allowed Ari Heckman to return to his native Providence, R.I. Heckman, co-founder of the NYC design and staging firm ASH NYC (and a member of the inaugural class of Curbed Young Guns) has said that the team obsessed over the hotel's every detail, from the branding down to the P-trap.

The Boston Globe - March 8, 2014

With a thriving downtown, Providence sets bar higher.

The Improper Bostonian - March 5, 2014

Now, it’s been restored and transformed into The Dean, a brand-new boutique hotel that reflects the renaissance of its Downcity neighborhood, which has been revitalized into a dynamic arts district.

1stdibs - February 2014

The Talent: ASH NYC

Real-estate developers, interior designers, antiques dealers and, with the recent opening of The Dean, in Providence, Rhode Island, hotel owners: Ari Heckman and Will Cooper have a full plate. And they're just getting started.

Lonny - February 10, 2014

For this week's installment of Monday Design Daydream, I pose to you a question: can you guess where this hotel is based solely on the image above? If you said Brooklyn, well, then, you'd be wrong.

UrbanDaddy - February 7, 2014

This is a story about second chances. And third chances. And you sipping martinis and singing karaoke in a former strip club. In short: it’s a good story. A story about The Dean Hotel, a former religious refuge that later became a strip club and is now an outstanding place to spend a weekend in Providence.

HotelChatter - February 4, 2014

Just open, The Dean Hotel hits all the current trends. Masculine name? Check. Painfully hip Instagram account? Check. Bunk beds? Uh-huh. Strip club turned hotel? Yep, that too. Only this hip new hotel is not in Brooklyn or Manhattan, but, a little unexpectedly, in Providence, Rhode Island.

Monocle - February 2014

The Dean Hotel is an appropriate nod to Providence, Rhode Island's bookish legacy. Located in the historic Downcity district, The Dean's 52 rooms are a charming alternative to the city's more ubiquitous corporate offerings.

Rhode Island Monthly - February 2014

The Dean may be cool enough for New York to notice, but it’s Rhode Island all the way.

AFAR - January 2014

The Brooklyn-based design team ASH NYC debuts its flagship hotel, The Dean, in January. A cool crowd is sure to congregate at the beer garden and in the lobby, which has an outpost of local coffee roaster Bolt.

Travel & Leisure - November 19, 2013

With its high per-capita of nerdy students and artists, this Rhode Island city climbed two spots in the hipster rankings this year—but also scored well for having sophisticated locals. Downtown has an emerging hipster culture (consider the soon-to-open Dean Hotel, housed in a former brothel).

Remodelista - November 16, 2013

Current Obsessions: Julie is looking forward to checking out the lovely-looking Dean Hotel (which opens in early January) on her next swing through Providence, RI.

Wallpaper Magazine - November 15, 2013

The Dean, in a century-old building that once housed a brothel, was named with a nod to nearby Brown University, and the look is equally smart. Brooklyn-based practice Ash NYC restored the building and furnished the 52 rooms with a mix of all-American antiques and austere contemporary pieces. The lobby - with a coffee house called Bolt - has original tile floors and the restaurant, Faust's Hofbrauhaus Biergarten, is in a street-level space once occupied by a gentlemen's club.

The New York Times - November 14, 2013

“Hotels these days need to be more than a place to sleep,” he said. “They must be much more experiential.”

Providence, whose elite educational institutions include Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, has some of the same vibe as Shoreditch. It is a “cool, funky town,” Mr. Heckman said, that has a mix of quirky academics, bohemian artists and scrappy entrepreneurs.

T Magazine - November 4, 2013

"It was only a matter of time before Providence, R.I., long a petri dish for eggheads, design wunderkinds and culinary aspirants, would get its very own vintage-y, self-consciously cool hotel. The Dean, 52 rooms housed in a historic building from 1911 that was once a brothel, reflects the state’s bookish and somewhat gritty impulses toward homegrown authenticity."

Providence Journal - October 2, 2013

A downtown building with a colorful history is taking on a new personality as a part of a renovation project intended to turn it into a solid member of the city's merchant class.