Washington · Foggy Bottom & West End
The Watergate Hotel
Luigi Moretti's curving hotel on the Potomac, opened in 1967; the hotel says the 1972 Watergate burglars used its room 214 as a base.
- Built
- 1966–6713-story hotel built 1966-67 as part of Luigi Moretti's Watergate complex (D.C. Inventory); opened March 30, 1967. Closed 2007; interiors rebuilt and reopened 2016.
- Style
- Modernist
- Architect
- Luigi Moretti
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Area
- Foggy Bottom & West End
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Local landmark
The story
Italian architect Luigi Moretti’s curving Watergate complex, one of the first planned unit developments under the city’s 1958 zoning rules, was built from 1963 to 1971; the hotel and the adjoining office building opened on March 30, 1967. On June 17, 1972, five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices in the complex, and the hotel says the burglars used its room 214 as a base. The hotel closed on August 1, 2007, stood empty through failed sales, and was bought by Euro Capital Properties in 2010; it reopened in 2016 with 336 rooms.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site paid
- Pets welcome
- Address: 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037
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