BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Downtown -- Hay-Adams Hotel (800 16th St NW)

DC -- Downtown -- Hay-Adams Hotel (800 16th St NW):

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June: The hotel shut down due to COVID and then the windows were boarded up after the George Floyd protests.
August 17: Most of the plywood was off the windows now as the hotel desperately tried to reopen.
August 28: Hans Bruland, the Vice President and General Manager of the Hay-Adams Hotels, was out asking if the protesters needed anything.

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1. HAY_200604_01.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests.
2. HAY_200606_02.JPG: Boarded up because of BLM protests.
3. HAY_200609_01.JPG: The windows had been boarded up before. The BLACK LIVES MATTER signs were added afterward. Later, the Hay Adams would put pictures of art up here.
4. HAY_200626_05.JPG: They installed these posters over the plywood. Windows by Golden Triangle Adrienne Gaither How I Got Over Above: Remembrance & Mourning Not Just Knee Deep Left: Safety & Stability An Absence of Clarity Right: Safety & Stability A Step Between
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6. HAY_200626_11.JPG: Adrienne Gaither How I Got Over Remembrance & Mourning Kill Shots Adrienne Gaither How I Got Over Remembrance & Mourning Mythological Hero Achilles Windows by Golden Triangle
7. HAY_200817_07.JPG: Most of the plywood had come down (except on the Off the Record club which was still closed). The Hay Adams would open to the public on the 26th.
8. HAY_200826_21.JPG: The guy in the car had tried to check in. The kids on the street didn't move and the guy maneuvered into the turnaround, apparently coming close to the kid's unattended dog. The bare chested guy then angrily came up to the window and started yelling at him for scaring their dog. I felt sorry for the guy in the car. The Hay Adams used to be in such an ideal location but no more!
9. HAY_200828_01.JPG: Hans Bruland, the Vice President and General Manager of the Hay-Adams Hotels, was out asking if the protesters needed anything.
10. HAY_200930_05.JPG: Eric Gammitt
11. HAY_201102_04.JPG: Reporters are setting up to cover the White House for the election.
12. HAY_201102_07.JPG: Fences have been put up around the building in preparation for possible election violence. This is the entrance for the Off the Record Lounge which has not reopened since COVID.
13. HAY_201103_04.JPG: The hotel had done pretty well during the election since reporters knew they could photograph the White House from the top floors.
14. HAY_201222_02.JPG: Given that the hotel overlooks Lafayette Park, they finally had a huge boost in room rentals and reporters covering the election moved in. I don't know if the long dragged-out nature of the protests helped or hurt occupancy.
15. HAY_201222_06.JPG: An open window for videoing.
16. HAY_201222_17.JPG: Later, they'd have to go back to putting a fence around the building as Proud Boys protests loomed.
Wikipedia Description: Hay-Adams Hotel
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The Hay-Adams is a historic luxury hotel opened in 1928, located at 800 16th Street NW in Washington, D.C.. It south-fronts on Lafayette Square across from the White House.

Location

Lafayette Square and St. John's Episcopal Church, also known as the Church of the Presidents, are located across the street. The hotel is a contributing property to the Lafayette Square Historic District and a member of the Historic Hotels of America.

History

The hotel occupies the site where the 1885 homes of John Hay and Henry Adams once stood, at 16th and H Streets NW. In 1927, Washington developer Harry Wardman bought the property, razed the homes, and built a 138-room residential hotel, designed by architect Mihran Mesrobian in the Italian Renaissance style. The hotel opened in 1928 as The Hay-Adams House. Wardman's fortunes declined with the Great Depression, and he was forced to relinquish most of his hotel and apartment building empire in August 1930, with the exception of The Hay-Adams House. Finally, in 1932, Wardman defaulted on the hotel's loans, and it was sold at public auction to the Washington Loan and Trust Company.

Hotel magnate Julius Manger purchased the property in 1932 and renamed it the Manger Hay-Adams Hotel. He converted it to a transient hotel, remodeling the guest rooms and adding central air-conditioning. Manger owned 18 hotels in New York City, the Hotel Plaza in Chicago, the Manger Hotel at North Station in Boston. During the depression sought to increase his holdings in Washington, D.C., which he felt was a safe investment. He also purchased the Annapolis and Hamilton hotels in Washington. Manger resided at the Hay-Adams until his death in March 1937. At the time of his death, Manger was the largest independent hotel operator in the United States.

The Manger family sold the hotel to Washington developer Sheldon Magazine in 1973, and it was renamed The Hay-Adams. Magazine sold the hotel to businessman Jeffrey I. Friedman and French hotelier Georges F. Mosse in 1979 for approximately $15 million. Friedman and Mosse sold the hotel to Los Angeles businessman David H. Murdock in 1983 for $30 million. Murdock sold the hotel to the Iue Family, founders of Sanyo, in 1989 for $54 million. The Iue family sold the hotel to the B. F. Saul Company, a Washington real estate company, in 2006, for $100 million.

President Obama and his family stayed in the Hay-Adams for a period of two weeks prior to his inauguration because the Blair House was occupied.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Trips: Because of COVID, the farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC -- and didn't do any overnight travel anywhere. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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