New York · Boutique Hotel · Est. 2009
Four generations of innkeepers. One Parisian-inspired retreat in the heart of Manhattan. This is the story of how a family-run pied-à-terre became one of the most quietly celebrated boutique hotels in the city.
A letter from the family
The Beaumonts have been keeping houses for travellers since the early twentieth century — first as innkeepers in the Loire Valley, then as the family behind a small constellation of restored guesthouses across France and Switzerland. By the time the fourth generation began to dream of a single, considered hotel in a great city, we had learned one lesson above all others: a hotel is only ever as good as the people who wake up to look after it.
In 2009, we opened Elysees on a quiet stretch of Midtown — close enough to feel the pulse of the avenues, far enough to sleep through them. We chose the name with care. It is not a claim, but an inheritance: a quiet homage to the Parisian elegance our family has long admired, brought quietly across the Atlantic and settled into New York stone.
Fifteen years on, three Beaumonts still oversee the property directly. Our head of housekeeping has been with us since the first season. Our concierge team includes two master butlers trained at the International Butler Academy. We do not run Elysees as a brand; we run it as a house. The difference, we hope, is something you feel the moment the door closes behind you.
— The Beaumont family
The 2022 Renovation
In 2022, after thirteen years of continuous use, the Beaumonts made the largest single investment in the property's history — a $14 million top-to-bottom restoration of all seventy-eight rooms and suites across six floors.
Working with the same Paris-based interior architect who shaped the original 2009 design, the renovation was never about a reinvention. It was about refinement: new cashmere throws, hand-loomed linen drapery, marble baths re-cut in Carrara, the soft hum of updated climate control you only notice when it is gone. The brasserie was reorganised around an open hearth. The rooftop gained its private infinity garden. And, quietly, every back-of-house system was rebuilt so the front-of-house warmth could keep doing what it had always done.
The Beaumonts' brief to the design team, written on a single index card pinned to the lobby wall throughout construction, read simply: If a guest returns in five years, they should feel that nothing important has changed — only that everything is somehow more itself.
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The hands behind every stay
Elysees is not a corporate operation. It is a house with a long memory. Twenty-four-hour concierge desk, in-house sommelier, certified master butlers, a pastry team that begins at four in the morning — every department is sized for attentiveness, not scale. Our average staff tenure exceeds seven years, which is unusual for a property of our size in a city of this pace.
Most boutique hotels reserve butler attention for their most expensive rooms. We take a different view: a stay at Elysees is, by definition, an occasion. From the moment your booking is confirmed, a dedicated butler oversees your preferences, your unpacking, your in-suite dining, your late-evening tea — the small, invisible choreography that turns a reservation into a memory.
In 2021, Elysees became one of the first boutique properties in the city to certify fully carbon-neutral operations. We run on 100% renewable electricity, source from regional farms for our kitchens, and eliminated single-use plastics across all seventy-eight rooms. Sustainability at our scale is not a campaign — it is simply how a family business is meant to think about the house it borrows.
Elysees is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World and Preferred Hotels & Resorts' "Legend" collection. In 2023, the property won "Best Boutique Hotel" at the International Hotel Awards (Americas region); in 2024, Elysees Spa was named "Urban Spa of the Year" by SpaFinder Wellness. They live in our binder; they are not on the door.
We never set out to build the largest hotel, nor the loudest. We set out to build the one we would most like to come home to ourselves. Fifteen years later, the most rewarding part is not the recognition — it is the guests who, year after year, choose to return to a house that still feels held by a family.
— Hélène Beaumont, Managing Director
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