Coastal North Carolina property from 1700s gets new life as boutique hotel

CHARLOTTE — One of the oldest structures on the East Coast is set to have new life as a boutique hotel.

Heron Hospitality of New Bern purchased the Harvey Mansion in December 2020 for $500,000 and for the past couple of years has been working on renovations to turn the property into a boutique hotel. Charles Cushman, CEO of Heron Hospitality, said the goal is to open the hotel — located at 221 S. Front St. in New Bern — in the second half of this year.

“It’s really large, especially for construction at that time,” Cushman said. “It’s one of the oldest structures in New Bern and certainly of this brick style in New Bern.”

The Harvey Mansion has more than 200 years of history. It’s not known for certain when exactly it was erected, but Cushman points to the date of 1797. That’s because in that year there’s a register of deeds recording that said the property had “improvements,” which historians say indicate construction had begun.

Its next life will be a hotel called The Harvey, which will feature “10 high-end, for this area, boutique hotel rooms,” Cushman said.

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