The Willard Hotel - White House Historical Association
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WEBFirst Years of a Great Hotel. Henry Willard had been invited to Washington in 1847 to try his luck running a hotel that Charles Dickens described simply as “a long row of small houses” built in 1816 at Fourteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. 4 Willard was 25, with some hotel experience back home in Vermont and a fine reputation earned as ...
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