The "New" Willard
George R. Lawrence
Ninth Annual Banquet, Architectural League of America,
April 24, 1907
Gelatin silver print
Copyright deposit, 1907
Prints & Photographs Division (240)
Digital ID#s ppmsca-11569
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (1847-1918)
Willard Hotel, "F" Street
elevation
Photographic print on mylar, ca. 1901
Gift of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, 1991
Prints & Photographs Division (241)
Digital ID#s ppmsca-11570
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The "new" Willard, which opened its new doors in 1901,
was the work of Henry Hardenbergh, leading hotel architect of the
period. His work included New York's old Waldorf-Astoria and the
Plaza Hotel. Selected by Joseph Willard, Jr., nephew of one of
the original owners, Hadenbergh remade the hotel in the Beaux-Arts
style. The "new" Willard resumed its place as a social
hub of Washington, hosting presidents, national and foreign luminaries,
and sumptuous banquets, like the one pictured above for the Architectural
League of America in 1907. Hardenbergh's architectural drawings
were adopted and adapted for the renovation and additions made
to the Willard in the 1980s.
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