Delray Beach
The Colony Hotel & Cabaña Club
A twin-domed 1926 Mediterranean Revival hotel on Delray Beach's Atlantic Avenue, run by the same family since 1935.
- Built
- 1926built 1926 as a hotel (opened as the Alterep Hotel; renamed the Colony in 1935)
- Style
- Florida Mediterranean Revival
- Architect
- Martin Luther Hampton
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 66
- Credentials
- Historic Hotels of America member
The story
Martin Luther Hampton, an associate of Addison Mizner, designed the twin-domed hotel, built in 1926 for investors led by Albert T. Repp and first named the Alterep Hotel. After it went into receivership, newlyweds George and Agnes Boughton bought it in 1935 with George’s father and renamed it the Colony; the family still runs it. For decades it opened only for the winter season, while the Boughtons ran a sister Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport, Maine. In 1949 the family added the oceanfront Colony Cabaña Club two miles away. The 1926 staff-operated elevator, original telephone switchboard and lobby wicker furniture remain in use.
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- Parking: on-site free
- Elevator
- Pets welcome
- Address: 525 East Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33483
Sources (3)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.