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Hamilton Hotel
Jules Henri de Sibour's 1922 hotel on Franklin Square, home to AFL president William Green; the city landmarked it in 2012 for its labor history.
- Built
- 1922Building permit October 20, 1921 (Jules Henri de Sibour, architect; Hamilton Hotel Corp.); opened 1922 (D.C. HPO). The '1851' in some lists is a predecessor building on the site: a private school of 1851 that became the first Hamilton Hotel in the early 1860s, per the hotel.
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- Architect
- Jules Henri de Sibour
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Area
- Downtown
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Local landmark
The story
Jules Henri de Sibour designed the eleven-story limestone and terra cotta hotel, which opened in 1922 on Franklin Square with meeting rooms, a dining room and the Rainbow Room cocktail lounge. Its public rooms became gathering places for union labor leaders; William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952, lived at the Hamilton, and D.C. designated it a landmark for that labor history in 2012. The hotel says an earlier Hamilton Hotel, opened in the 1860s by Admiral Horatio Bridge in an 1851 school building, gave it its name.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site paid
- Address: 1001 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005
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