Washington · Foggy Bottom & West End
Hotel Lombardy
David L. Stern's 11-story brick and limestone apartment house at Pennsylvania Avenue and I Street, now a 140-room hotel near the World Bank.
- Built
- 1926–29D.C. building permit December 8, 1927 for an 11-story apartment house at 2019 I Street NW (David L. Stern, architect; Joseph Howar, owner), recorded as 'Hotel Lombardy'. Completion year not confirmed: the hotel says 'constructed in 1926', Wikipedia says built 1929 and converted to a hotel in 1994.
- Architect
- David L. Stern
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 140
- Area
- Foggy Bottom & West End
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district; Local landmark; Historic Hotels of America member
The story
Joseph Howar built the 11-story apartment house to David L. Stern’s design under a December 1927 permit, a brick and limestone building at the corner of I Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. It later became a hotel; sources disagree on when (the hotel says after a 1970s renovation, Wikipedia says 1994). Its location near the White House, World Bank and IMF draws diplomats, and Wikipedia records that Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador stayed here in 2022.
Good to know
- Address: 2019 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006
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Sources (4)
- https://maps2.dcgis.dc.gov/dcgis/rest/services/DCGIS_DATA/Historic_WebMercator/MapServer/10/query?where=ADDRESS%3D%272019+I+STREET+NW%27&outFields=ADDRESS%2CDATE_%2CARCHITECT%2COWNER%2CSTORIES%2CPURPOSE%2CNAME&f=json
- https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/14001207
- https://www.hotellombardy.com/history
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Lombardy
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.