Willard InterContinental Washington D.C. Hotel (Washington, D.C.)

USA / District of Columbia / Washington / Washington, D.C. / Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, 1401
 hotel, place with historical importance, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1904_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture), 1900s construction, InterContinental Hotels
Historic hotel built in 1904 and designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, designer of The Plaza in New York, The Copley Plaza in Boston and the original, now demolished Waldorf-Astoria in New York on 34th Street.

There has been a Willard Hotel on the site since 1860 and guests have included Abraham Lincoln, Julia Ward Howe, who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the hotel, and Martin Luther King, who wrote his "I Have A Dream" speech in the hotel. It closed in 1968, following the devastating riots in Downtown Washington, and sat empty and decaying for nearly twenty years, nearly being demolished, before it was finally restored in 1986.

The lengthy final portion of Spielberg's "Minority Report" was filmed here in 2001.

1401 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20004
(202) 628-9100
www.ihg.com/intercontinental/hotels/us/en/washington/wa...
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_InterContinental_Washington
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Coordinates:   38°53'48"N   77°1'56"W

Comments

  • this is where the Mint Julip was created.
  • The mint julep was absolutely NOT created here. Perhaps it is where Henry Clay first instructed a bartender how to make one, but the drink existed down south much earlier.The exact origin of the drink and how it evolved from the "julab" or sweet rose syrup of the middle east is not known.
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