Hotel Washington, detail of cornice view facing southeast, September 1988

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Hotel Washington, detail of cornice view facing southeast, September 1988

Credit: James C. Massey, National Preservation Institute

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Designed by the architectural firm Carrère and Hastings, the ten-story, Beaux-Arts hotel is the only commercial building designed by the New York firm in Washington, DC. Completed in 1918, Hotel Washington’s facade features cream colored sgraffito…