BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Woodley Park -- Wardman Park Hotel (2600 Woodley Rd, NW)

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1. WARD_040709_04.JPG: The Wardman Tower is part of the Sheraton-Washington Hotel now. It was built in 1928 by Harry Wardman as a residential block adjoining the Wardman Park Hotel. According to one book, it was the home to more top-ranking government officials than any other apartment building in the District. People who lived here included Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Spiro Agnew, Henry Wallace, Clare Booth Luce, Barry Goldwater, John Foster Dulles, Adlai Stevenson, and Earl Warren.
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Wikipedia Description: Marriott Wardman Park
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The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel is a Marriott International property in Washington, D.C.. The hotel is located in the Woodley Park neighborhood at 2600 Woodley Road, NW and Connecticut Avenue, NW, adjacent the Woodley Park–Zoo/Adams Morgan station of the Washington Metrorail system.

The Wardman Park is the largest hotel in the capital, with 1,316 guest rooms, and 195,000 square feet (18,100 m2) of total event space and 95,000 square feet (8,800 m2) of exhibit space.

History:

In 1918, developer Harry Wardman celebrated the end of World War I by opening the five-million-dollar 1,000-room Wardman Park hotel. In 1928, the main building was expanded with the opening of the annex, now known as the Wardman Tower and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

"Before the United States entry into World War II, espionage and intrigue enveloped the historic hotel with a beguiling British spy named Cynthia, who operated out of the premises as she spied on the French Vichy Embassy. Cloaked in the darkness of night, she would visit her lover, an embassy employee whom she had compromised, and steal top-secret documents, transporting them back to the hotel and photographing them in a lab she had set up in her room.

"In the late 1940s, the hotel pool was utilized by the 5th Marine Reserves who were taught how to swim with their clothes on. Images of Army Special Forces soldiers rappelling down the side of the Sheraton Park Hotel have also been located, taken during a training exercise on October 3, 1962.

The first televised broadcast of NBC's Meet the Press took place in 1947 in the Wardman Tower, where host Lawrence Spivak was a resident. Other shows broadcast from the hotel include The Camel News Caravan, The Today Show (Frank Blair segments), and the The Arthur Murray Dance Program.

The Sheraton Corporation purchased the property in 1953 and renamed it the Sheraton Park Hotel. Substanti ...More...
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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