Marriott Wardman Park
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Wardman Park Annex and Arcade
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Marriott Wardman Park Tower
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| Location | 2600 Woodley Rd. NW, Washington, District of Columbia |
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| Coordinates | 38°55′30″N 77°3′13″W / 38.92500°N 77.05361°WCoordinates: 38°55′30″N 77°3′13″W / 38.92500°N 77.05361°W |
| Area | 2.7 acres (1.1 ha) |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Mihran Mesrobian |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 84000869 |
| Added to NRHP | January 31, 1984 |
The Washington Marriott Wardman Park is a Marriott International hotel located in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The hotel is situated in the Woodley Park neighborhood at 2600 Woodley Road NW and Connecticut Avenue NW, adjacent to the Woodley Park station of the Washington Metro system. It is two blocks from another major hotel, the Omni Shoreham Hotel. The Wardman Park is the largest hotel in the capital, with 1,156 guest rooms, 195,000 square feet (18,100 m2) of total event space, and 95,000 square feet (8,800 m2) of exhibit space.
An important landmark in the city's development, the hotel's Wardman Tower wing was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1984.
Built between 1917 and 1918 by local developer Harry Wardman, the Wardman Park Hotel was an eight-story, red brick structure modeled on The Homestead resort in Virginia. The hotel was the largest in the city, with 1200 rooms and 625 baths. It was nicknamed Wardman's Folly, due to its location far outside the developed area of Washington.
It opened on November 23, 1918, just days after the armistice ending World War I. No elaborate opening festivities were held, however, as all public gatherings had been made illegal while the city was in the grips of the cataclysmic 1918 flu pandemic then sweeping the globe. The hotel was an immediate success due to the housing shortage caused by Washington's growth during World War I.
In 1928, the hotel was expanded with an eight-story, 350-room residential-hotel annex, designed by architect Mihran Mesrobian. That building is today the only surviving portion of the original Wardman Park, known as the Wardman Tower and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wardman was forced to sell the hotel in 1931, due to the Great Depression, to Washington Properties.
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