In 1867, Cambridge grocer Isaac Harding built this Victorian home for himself and his daughter — a house meant, from the beginning, to hold people close. The ginkgo tree specie has been on this earth for 200 million years — unchanged since the age of dinosaurs, outlasting every ice age and extinction the planet has thrown at it. A ginkgo doesn't just endure. It remembers. That felt like the right name for this place.
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What began as a private family residence has passed through many lives before becoming the boutique hotel it is today. Through every chapter, the original bones have been preserved: the crown moldings, the pinewood stairways, the quiet dignity of a house that knows what it is.
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We are not a franchise. There is no loyalty points program, no laminated welcome card, no room that looks exactly like a room somewhere else. What we have instead are fourteen rooms, a common room where strangers become friends over dinners, and a staff that actually remembers your name.
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Travelers come to Cambridge to visit families, for Harvard and MIT, for conferences and reunions and new beginnings. They leave the Ginkgo with something no chain hotel can manufacture: a story worth telling. If that sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to have you.

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