Hotel Washington: The grand Beaux-Arts style of the Hotel Washington is fitting for its extremely prominent location.
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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 decoration on a reddish-brown ground. The hotel can be seen in the films “Contact” and “The Firm,” and its roof terrace was also featured in “The Godfather: Part II” and “No Way Out.” Following an extensive renovation by Nakheel Properties, the owner of the building at the time, the 317-room hotel reopened in 2008 as a W Hotel, a Marriott brand. Following another renovation in the late-2010s, it is now called the Hotel Washington, once again. DC Inventory: August 28, 1973 (Joint Committee on Landmarks)National Register: March 30, 1995
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Designed by the architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings, the ten-story, Beaux-Arts hotel is the only commercial building designed by the firm in Washington, D.C. Construction of the Hotel Washington was completed in 1918; following an extensive renovation by Nakheel Properties, owner of the building since 2006, the 317-room W Hotel opened in 2009. The Hotel Washington was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1995; in addition, the building is a contributing property to the Fifteenth Street Financial Historic District, listed on the NRHP in 2006, and the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site, designated a National Historic Site in 1965. | Source: Wikimedia Commons | Date: September 19, 2009
Hotel Washington, August 2008
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Hotel Washington, September 2009
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Hotel Washington, exterior, December 1937
Horydczak, Theodor, Approximately, photographer. Hotel Washington. Exterior of Hotel Washington IV. Dec, 1937. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/thc1995007181/PP/. (Accessed November 03, 2016.)
Hotel Washington, general view facing southeast, September 1988
Credit: James C. Massey, National Preservation Institute
Hotel Washington, general view facing northeast, September 1988
Credit: James C. Massey, National Preservation Institute
Hotel Washington, detail of cornice view facing southeast, September 1988
Credit: James C. Massey, National Preservation Institute