01/30/2026
❤️our home is 100 years old ❤️
👉we are in our 20th year at Colony Yoga
Exactly 100 years ago today, the Alterep Hotel (now the Colony Hotel & Cabaña Club) opened for business. The hotel was named after its owner, Albert T. Repp, a local businessman. It was designed by Martin Luther Hampton, a Miami-based architect best known for his work in Coral Gables and Miami. Hampton also designed the hotel addition to Henry Flagler's Palm Beach mansion, Whitehall.
The hotel featured 94 guest bedrooms and a full kitchen plant with bakeries and refrigeration. It was also equipped with automatic sprinklers and was fireproofed during construction. John Wanamaker, who owned a prominent interior design firm and department store, supplied all the interior furnishings, which are still in use today. In total, the building cost $500,000. The lobby included a ladies’ parlor and writing rooms, and the dining room could seat over 200 guests.
In August 1935, a new era dawned for the hotel. George Boughton and his father, Charles, purchased the Alterep for $50,000. The Boughtons changed the hotel’s name to the Colony and brought new life to the hotel and to Delray Beach.
📸: The Alterep Hotel featuring multiple real estate offices in its Atlantic Avenue storefronts, c. 1920s.
