Historic Inns

Washington · Dupont Circle

The Tabard Inn

Three Victorian rowhouses on N Street, an inn since 1922 that calls itself Washington's oldest continuously operating inn. No elevators.

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The Tabard Inn
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Built
1887–1900Three joined rowhouses: 1737 N Street (permit May 24, 1887; T. Franklin Schneider), 1741 N Street (permit September 20, 1888; S. E. Edmonston) and the center house, 1739 N Street (permit April 26, 1900; Hornblower & Marshall), where the inn opened in 1922 (D.C. building permit records; D.C. HPO).
Style
Victorian rowhouses
Architect
T. Franklin Schneider; S. E. Edmonston; Hornblower & Marshall
Type
Inn
Area
Dupont Circle
Credentials
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Inside a National Register historic district; Local landmark

The story

Marie Willoughby Rogers opened the Tabard Inn in 1922 in the center house of three N Street rowhouses, later expanding into the flanking 1880s houses; D.C. HPO calls it a fine example of the small inns and teahouses of the early-20th-century American Tea House movement. For three years during World War II it was requisitioned as quarters for Navy WAVES. After Rogers’s death, Edward Cohen, a Washington Post financial editor, and his wife Fritzi bought it at auction in 1974 and reopened the restaurant in 1977; an employee stock ownership plan was set up in 1993.

Good to know

  • Breakfast: available
  • Parking: on-site paid
  • No elevator
  • Pets welcome
  • Address: 1739 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

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