Commercial Street · Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Two small inns on the ridge, the whole harbor below.
Greenleaf Inn and Admiral’s Quarters sit two doors apart on the ridge at the head of the peninsula, above the harbor. 18 rooms between them, every one with its own bath, most looking straight at the boats. Owned and run by one family, with three more inns on the way.
Coming up
This month in the harbor
Sat 26 – Sun 27 September 2026
Pemaquid Oyster Festival
Mine Oyster, 16 Wharf Street, Boothbay Harbor
Now on the harbor: Sunday 27 September 2026, 11 to 6 at Mine Oyster on Wharf Street, a five-minute walk from the inns. Eight oyster farms, four bands, a $500 shucking contest, tastings and a silent auction for marine conservation and education. Chef Ralph Smith's oyster and wine pairing dinner is the Saturday night before, 6 to 9.
As seen on Nick Beres Media · Nashville
Nashville's Nick Beres, from the deck at Admiral’s Quarters
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"So many of you are asking exactly where we are staying. The secret is out. This is Boothbay Harbor in Maine. We stayed at Admiral’s Quarters, and Jersey is my Maine man. We’ll be back."Nick Beres, Nashville · September 2026
Nick Beres, Nashville’s longtime television newsman, spent a week in Boothbay Harbor, stayed with us at Admiral’s Quarters, ran into a couple from Pulaski, Tennessee on the ridge, and went home telling everyone where to find us. The man in the Parsons cap is Jersey Metzinger, our innkeeper, who runs both houses and answers the phone himself.
The house behind the inns
We give buildings their voice back.
Both inns were tired when we found them. We gave them back their voices: new baths, real beds, decks rebuilt to face the water, and an innkeeper who lives here and answers the phone. The Adirondack chairs on the lawn are the best seat in town for the evening boats coming in.
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The inns
Boothbay HarborGreenleaf Inn
Ten king rooms on the hill above the harbor, with a third-floor sky deck that looks out over all of it.
Boothbay HarborAdmiral's Quarters Inn
A historic white clapboard inn at the water's edge, with a glass solarium, a fire pit on the lawn and rooms that face the harbor.
In the works
Three more inns on the way
Coming soonCaptain Sawyer's
A Victorian captain's house two doors from Greenleaf, planned as twelve keys after a full renovation.
In designWelch House
A hilltop inn above the harbor with eighteen to twenty suites. Three interior schemes under study.
In designValerie's Inn
A blue-clapboard pair of houses a block from the water, planned as ten to twelve guest rooms over a café at street level.
Style · Personality · Experience
Every room has a voice.
Nobody here stays in room 7. They stay in Sarah’s Room, or Jersey’s, or the Penthouse with the sky deck. Each one was put together on purpose, with the bed, the light and the view doing the talking.
Coffee and tea in every room, air conditioning for the warm weeks, free parking, and a lawn or deck to sit on whatever the hour. That is the whole offer. It is enough.
The harbor
This isn’t just where you stay. It’s where the trip starts.
The wharves, the whale-watch boats and dinner are a walk down the hill. Up on the ridge it is quiet enough at night to hear the moorings. June and September are the months the regulars book.
Plan the days →Plan a stay
Taking a whole inn?
Wedding weekends, reunions and retreats can book Greenleaf or Admiral’s Quarters outright. Tell us the dates and the headcount.