Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (closed) (Washington, D.C.)

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Washington's largest convention hotel, with over 1,300 guest rooms, the original Wardman Park Hotel was built by developer Harry Wardman, who also built the Carlton Hotel downtown. It opened in 1918 as a residential hotel outside the city, with a smaller apartment building added later.

Sheraton bought the hotel in the 1950's and it operated for over twenty years as the Sheraton-Park. In 1977, the horseshoe-shaped hotel building was demolished and replaced with a y-shaped modern convention hotel. The apartment building was saved as a luxury wing and renamed the Wardman Tower. The hotel was renamed the Sheraton Washington after the reconstruction.

The Wardman Tower is registered in the US Registry of Historic Landmarks. It has served as the home of famous diplomats, former United States Presidents as well as many members of Washington DC's social elite.

In the 1990s, the hotel's owners at the time, John Hancock Insurance and the Sumitomo Corp, sued the ITT Sheraton company for mismanagement, and the suit dragged on after ITT had sold Sheraton to Starwood. The matter was finally resolved and the hotel left the Sheraton chain to become a Marriott, regaining its name as the Wardman Park for the first time in fifty years.

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The entire complex boasts nearly 200,000 square feet of meeting/exhibit space and is located conveniently next to the Woodley Park/National Zoo/Adams Morgan metro stop.