The Willard InterContinental stands two blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., its current Beaux-Arts building completed in 1901 to a design by the architect Henry Hardenbergh, who also designed New York's original Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza hotels. A hotel has stood on the site since the 1850s, and the Willard became a fixture of Washington political life through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, hosting a long roster of presidents, foreign dignitaries and public figures. According to a widely repeated, though disputed, account, the modern use of the word lobbyist traces to people who gathered in the Willard's lobby seeking access to officials and, in some versions, President Ulysses S. Grant himself. The hotel closed for more than a decade in the 1970s amid financial decline before a major restoration returned it to luxury operation in 1986, preserving its Beaux-Arts facade and grand public interiors largely as built.
Facts
Building Type Location1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 1 Completed Year Completed Year Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Willard InterContinental Washington, Wikipedia
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1. Willard InterContinental Washington, Wikipedia
Lead paragraph, use
The Willard InterContinental Washington, commonly known as the Willard Hotel, is a historic luxury Beaux-Arts hotel
Lead paragraph, address
located at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Downtown Washington, D.C.
History section, current building
The present 12-story structure, designed in the Beaux-Arts style by famed hotel architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, opened in 1901.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Willard InterContinental stands two blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., its current Beaux-Arts building completed in 1901 to a design by the architect Henry Hardenbergh, who also designed New York's original Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza hotels. A hotel has stood on the site since the 1850s, and the Willard became a fixture of Washington political life through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, hosting a long roster of presidents, foreign dignitaries and public figures. According to a widely repeated, though disputed, account, the modern use of the word lobbyist traces to people who gathered in the Willard's lobby seeking access to officials and, in some versions, President Ulysses S. Grant himself. The hotel closed for more than a decade in the 1970s amid financial decline before a major restoration returned it to luxury operation in 1986, preserving its Beaux-Arts facade and grand public interiors largely as built.
- In Style: Beaux-Arts Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Beaux-Arts
View the Source2. Wikidata: The Willard InterContinental
- Wikidata Q731089, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q731089, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the Source3. The Willard InterContinental (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata height (P2048) statement: 47.07Quote, Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 47.07
Wikidata item Q731089, property P2048 (height): 47.07 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
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