The Hotel Brexton - One of Baltimore's Best!
Before you start reading about one of the best boutique hotels that Baltimore has to offer let's play a little game. Take a look at the picture below and guess what it is. Chances are good that you didn't have to trip back to the 60's to figure out that it was a spiral staircase that had been somewhat modified! Below is the original picture of the spiral staircase that is located in the north turret of the Hotel Brexton - the recently renovated and reopened boutique hotel in the Mount Vernon district of Baltimore where Amanda and I stayed for the weekend of Otakon. From the 5th floor looking down As awesome as it is, though, that spiral staircase isn't the only cool thing about the Hotel Brexton which opened in February of 2009 after a multi-million dollar restoration. The history of the Hotel Brexton dates way back to 1868 when the Baltimore City Council decided to extend Park Avenue north of what was then Richmond Street (now Read Street north to Biddle St...