Based in Hudson, NY, and housed in a historic textile factory built in 1885, which is the source of our namesake, it’s a place led by curiosity and shaped for care. Here, you’ll find beds for sleeping, a communal bathhouse, an open-fire restaurant, café and bar, a subterranean nightclub, galleries, and a street-level market. You’ll also find original architectural details that speak to the present in unexpected ways.

Pocketbook Hudson is a place to be.

This is not just a site of exhibition—it is a site of relation. Pocketbook sees art as a form of infrastructure—rather than adornment. An emotional architecture, held together by long-standing friendships, mutual witnessing, and shared language. It emerges from an artist-led desire to build—not just images or objects—but conditions: for intimacy, for irreverence, for worlding.

In this hotel, art is not simply installed—it is metastasized. The line between host and guest, object and subject, artist and audience is porous, organically blurred. What emerges is a new form of hospitality—one rooted in queer kinship, participation and transformation.

Pocketbook calls Hudson, NY, home, a city whose rich and diverse history informs our ethos. Once Mohican land, later shaped by an industrial boom and Gilded Age proprietors, Hudson is the first incorporated city in the United States. It has long been a beacon of industrial change, reflecting the many histories of our time.

During your stay at Pocketbook, you’ll have the chance to explore these layered histories and our vibrant community. Within just two square miles, Hudson offers the rare walkable city filled with historic architecture, a dynamic cultural landscape with a lively mix of food, shopping, and more.

Served by the Hudson Amtrak Station and nestled on the Eastside of the Hudson River, Pocketbook Hudson is for creative connection and following your own paths.