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Wilmington, Delaware flies under the radar for a number of reasons, but boutique-hotel aficionados have at least one reason to keep it on the list: the Quoin, a Romanesque bank building in the historic downtown center, now renovated by the Philadelphia-based Method Co. and Stokes Architecture + Design into a warm, livable, and richly detailed boutique hotel. The Quoin marks Wilmington’s very first hotel in our selection.

The Quoin, a hotel and restaurant in a lovingly renovated downtown brownstone, specializes in the same delicious Italian cuisine as its Philly sibling.

In the Quoin, a little hotel housed in a former bank, you’ll discover Simmer Down in the old money room. Today, it’s a richly detailed space with a green-marble bar; a surrealist, hand-painted mural with whimsical nods to the area; and swivel chairs with animals in a fairy-tale setting.

The Quoin, housed in a stately 1880s brownstone that once served as a repository for gold and silver coins (clever name, right?), occupies a prime spot on a prime street in an often-overlooked mid-Atlantic city.

Guests enter the Quoin — set in a late 1800s Romanesque Revival building designed by the architect Frank Furness and located in Wilmington, Del. — through a set of gleaming brass gates.