Rivet House

The original denim mill brickwork and oversized wood beams stayed; the graffiti did not. This boutique hotel in Athens occupies a beautifully salvaged industrial building, where the team layered in hand-laid marble, travertine, and custom metalwork without smothering what was already there. Fifty rooms have full-height windows and botanical tones. Downstairs, the Italian kitchen packs the house on Tuesday nights, which in a college town is its own kind of endorsement.