Willard InterContinental

ID: 4686 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Date: September 19, 2015

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This file appears in: Willard Hotel: This prominent hotel has hosted many of DC’s most famous visitors.

Willard Hotel: This prominent hotel has hosted many of DC’s most famous visitors.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Designed by New York architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (1847-1918), the Willard Hotel opened in 1901 as DC’s first skyscraper. The building successfully adapts the eclectic Beaux Arts vocabulary of…