Warp drive: In the Roxbury Motel's new Final Frontier suite, a "window" peers into a skyful of shooting stars.
After months of hammering, sheetrocking, tiling and mood-lighting, the mighty fortress of fabulosity overlooking the East Branch in Roxbury is finally complete. Last week, Roxbury Motel owners Greg Henderson and Joseph Massa announced the official opening of the motel's new 8,000-square-foot North Wing, which will double the motel's capacity.
True to the Roxbury's essential mission of grooviness, the new wing is as camp as ever -- there's a Charlie's Angels-inspired room called Angel Hair, and a Wizard of Oz room with its very own yellow brick road. But for all its winking pop-culture references, the new wing is pretty luxurious, too: it's a glittering palace of mosaic-tile bathrooms, giant soaking tubs and flat-screen TVs. (There's a whole new spa in the North Wing, too.) To quote the press release:
The Roxbury is a getaway that transports you to a long-lost fantasy - or maybe one that's not so far beneath the surface. "Designing these rooms was a daily meltdown of, 'is this just too much?'" says Henderson. "I guess it might be if you're going to live in it every day, but we feel that a vacation is about taking you away from the every day and into the world of 'why not?' We say think INSIDE the box, just decorate the hell out of that box!" Camp? Perhaps a bit. Cheesy? Never!
For many lovingly shot photos of the new wing, check out the press photo page on the Roxbury's website.
