The Yorktowne Hotel - York, Pennsylvania - historical Renaissance Revival style hotel

The Yorktowne Hotel in York, PA was built in 1925, and its style reflects the excesses and opulence of the era. The Renaissance Revival styled hotel is 11 stories high, and is replete with all the features that made the Roaring Twenties grand - spacious rooms with twenty foot high ceilings, ornate brass and crystal chandeliers and mirrored walls. The hotel has been in business continuously since its original opening, and is listed on the Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Yorktowne takes its name from its location, the historic city of York, Pennsylvania, where the Articles of Federation were drafted and adopted. The city served as a temporary capital for the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War, and is considered by many York residents to be the first real capital of the United States of America. Located in the center of historic downtown York, the Yorktowne Hotel is within easy walking distance of many local historic attractions, including the 1766 Friends Meeting House, the 1887 Central Market, the historic Strand Theatre and a number of pubs and taverns that date from the Colonial era.

Centrally located between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the Yorktowne Hotel also is within easy driving distance of other Central Pennsylvania attractions. The hotel is less than 25 miles away from both Gettysburg National Park and Lancaster's Amish Country, offering visitors easy access to a wide variety of historic tours and activities. For visitors who prefer a more modern flavor, York offers numerous factory tours. In fact, the city is known as "The Factory Tour Capital of the World''. Among others places, visitors to the Yorktowne Hotel can tour the Wolfgang Chocolate factory and the Harley-Davidson Plant and Museum, and it's only a short trip to Hershey, Pennsylvania for a tour of the Hershey plant.

The hotel features two restaurants on premises. The OffCenter Grill is a casual restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu runs the gamut from popular grill favorites to daily lunch and dinner specials featuring high quality ingredients in sophisticated dishes, all at reasonable prices. The Commonwealth Room is a culinary experience - York County's only AAA Four Diamond restaurant. Open for dinner from Tuesday through Saturday, the Commonwealth Room offers a menu of refined American cuisine accompanied by wines from a wine list that has won the Wine Spectator Award for multiple years.

The Yorktowne Hotel features 121 suites and guest rooms, each of them individually decorated in period style. Despite the period furnishings and historic restoration, the hotel provides all modern conveniences, including tiled baths and complementary high speed wireless internet access in every room. Other amenities offered by the Yorktowne include the use of a washer and dryer, expanded cable access and an onsite complementary fitness facility.

In addition to accommodations and fine dining, the Yorktowne Hotel houses 11 conference and banquet rooms that can seat anywhere from eight to over six hundred attendees. The business amenities offered include a range of catering services, a full business center and complementary high speed internet access. Room rates at the Yorktowne Hotel range from $109 to $149 per night for single and double rooms, and from $159 to $300 for suites.