About the house
An 1864 townhouse, an innkeeper from Norway.
A short history
The building, the block, and the idea.
412 Warren Street was built in 1864 as a private residence for a Hudson whaling merchant, with later additions by his children and great-grandchildren that eventually turned the whole property into a small department store, a boarding house, and finally, by the 1980s, a vacant brick shell with a tree growing through the third floor.
Henrik Lund bought the building in 2015, after a decade running small hotels in Copenhagen and Reykjavik. He spent three years restoring the structure with a small team of local craftspeople, the original plaster moldings preserved wherever possible, the original 1864 timber beams left exposed in the top-floor rooms.
The Halden opened in spring 2018 with eighteen rooms, a small restaurant by chef Ana Beltran, and a private garden courtyard that has since become the hotel's quiet center. Henrik still lives upstairs in the staff apartment and greets most guests at the front desk on Friday and Saturday afternoons.
The team
The people you'll meet.
Ana Beltran
Executive Chef
Formerly of Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Cooks four nights a week. Off Mondays and Tuesdays.
Henrik Lund
Owner & Innkeeper
Born in Halden, Norway, named the hotel after his hometown. Lives upstairs. Greets every guest by name.
Mira Okafor
Director of Hospitality
Twelve years at the Greenwich Hotel before moving north. Trains every front desk hire personally.
Jasper Reed
Beverage Director
Champion of the Hudson Valley wine list and a 50-bottle small-producer cellar.
Press
What the critics are saying.
“A jewel-box hotel that has quietly redrawn the map of Hudson Valley travel.”
“Eighteen rooms of careful restraint, where the design never shouts and the service never blinks.”
“One of the ten new American hotels worth flying for.”
“Chef Beltran's farm-to-table cooking is as serious as anything south of Stone Barns.”