The Revolution Hotel opened its doors in Boston just weeks ago. With a website proclaiming “The Revolution will be Instagrammed,” this is the hub hotel for artists, freewheelers, and Gen X-and-unders. There’s a shot everywhere you turn.
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Top Hotels in New England: Readers' Choice Awards 2018
Published October 12, 2018 in AwardsSeveral Mount Vernon Company hotels received the Readers' Choice Award for Top Hotels from Condé Nast Travelers. Readers rate their top hotels in New England, outside of Boston. 21 Broad and 76 Main in Nantucket, MA and Whitehall in Camden, ME make the list.

Making history cool, comfortable - The Revolution, Boston’s newest boutique hotel, will offer a modern take on the city’s past.
Published October 02, 2018 in PressWalk into the almost-finished hotel at 40 Berkeley St. in the South End, and the first thing you’ll see is Martin Luther King. Then Clara Barton, John F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. These once-Bostonians are staring down on the lobby, their images part of a bright street-art-style mural on the upper walls, mixed in with a rippling American flag, the seal of the City of Boston, and an eagle. Straight ahead, back by the stairs, a column is being transformed into a sort of totem pole, festooned with telephones, sewing machines, computer mice, and other things that were invented in Massachusetts.

The Hamptons Are So Last Year. Real Estate Is Better At This Other Posh Beach Town
Published October 02, 2018 in OtherThe Hamptons have been the summer symbol of East Coast uber-wealth for decades, but claims of overexposure and rampant social climbing are making an island 100 miles away the new favored playground of the richest 1%.

SideTracks: Stephon Gilmore, Lydia Shire... and more
Published October 01, 2018 in PressROCKET MAN: Apparently, astronaut Drew Feustel recently touched down in Boston to attend a private welcome-home party. We’re told that the out-of-this-world explorer, who returned to Earth earlier this fall after a 191-day mission aboard the International Space Station, and his wife, speech-language pathologist Indira Feustel, marked his arrival back on solid ground at the Chestnut Hill home of their close friends Bruce Percelay, founder of The Mount Vernon Company and publisher of Nantucket Magazine, and his wife, Elisabeth.

WBZ-TV to get new studio, adding to spate of Allston-Brighton development
Published August 30, 2018 in PressTwo prominent Boston-area developers have signed an agreement to redevelop WBZ-TV’s longtime home on Soldiers Field Road, in the latest sign that a once-sleepy corner of the city has become a magnet for real estate investors. Mount Vernon Co. and National Development plan to build a new studio for WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV on a portion of the 8-acre site in Allston while the current building remains in use. Once the new studio is done, the existing building would be torn down to make way for new development.

SideTracks: William Fichtner, Tony Kushner... and more
Published August 16, 2018 in OtherThe Boston Pops on Nantucket concert hit Jetties Beach this weekend, wowing thousands on the island with the sweet sound of music and a special announcement. At the event, Bruce Percelay of Nantucket Magazine and The Mount Vernon Co. joined Nantucket Cottage Hospital President Dr. Margot Hartmann to celebrate raising $114 million to construct a new hospital building in early 2019.

Boutique hotel to open soon at former South End YWCA and hostel
Published August 14, 2018 in Development, PressAnother boutique hotel is coming to the South End, this one with an unusual spin on the city’s history, from fine arts to disco. Mount Vernon Co. said it will open the Revolution Hotel later this year, turning the former YWCA at 40 Berkeley St. into a 164-room hotel that will “reflect Boston’s rich history of notable innovations, rebellious individuals and revolutionary events.”