At the beginning of the first Pahlavi period (after 1304 AD), the town of “Shemshak” and area around it was a coal mine and it was used for fueling and moving trains. The Germans were assisted in extraction activities, and a power generation center and buildings were built for their residence in Shemshak. The Power Generation Center was completed in 1305 and the Dorm Mansion was finished and utilized in 1312, but after a few years, with changes in technology and fuel production in Iran, the power generation and dormitory mansion was shut down.

In the second Pahlavi period, they decided to build a ski resort in Shemshak City and a hotel for guests to stay. In June 1965, the German company “Tonberg” came to the area for the construction of the hotel, reserved the building of the power generation station and built the hotel in three floors above it. The hotel was active until after the Islamic Revolution until it was shut down in the 1980s. In 1394, a privately-owned company invested in this project and managed to rebuild the hotel after two and a half years of operations at the international standards level. They transformed the dormitory building into a restaurant complex and in 2018 the complex was officially opened as the First Boutique Hotel of Iran. The walls, doors, windows, ceiling and wall lights and many of the hotel’s furnishings have been refurbished with great care in its original form.

Shemshak Boutique Hotel was registered in Cultural Heritage list of Iran (registration number 32614) as the first Boutique Hotel in Iran on 8 September 2019.

Founder and President:

Dr.AmirReza Farahbod (Ph.D in Architecture)

farahbodamirreza@gmail.com