Iyo Grande Dame yeWashington: Hotera yeMapurezidhendi

The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC yakavhurwa musi waFebruary 18, 1925 nemakamuri 440. Iyo inozivikanwa se "Grande Dame yeWashington," iyo "Hotera yeVatungamiri," uye se "Second Best Kero" yeguta (iyo White House ndiyo yekutanga).

Mayflower Hotel yakavakwa naAllen E. Walker uyo akaronga kuitumidza kuti The Hotel Walker. Akachengeta Warren & Wetmore, vagadziri vezvivakwa vakange vagadzira maHotera ekuNew York Commodore, Biltmore, Ambassador Ritz-Carlton neVanderbilt. Mugadziri aitarisira aiva Robert F. Beresford uyo akanga ashanda kuMutariri Wemapurani wePfuma yePfuma uye Mutariri weCapitol. Walker paakatengesa kufarira kwake kuCC Mitchell & Company, varidzi vatsva vakachinja zita kuti Mayflower Hotel vachikudza makore mazana matatu ekumhara kweMayflower nemaPilgrim paPlymouth Rock.

Mudzimba dzevaenzi dzeMayflower Hotel dzaive nekamuri yekutandarira, yekudyira, yekugezera uye nemakamuri manomwe ekurara. Vamwe vaiva nedzimba dzokubikira nedzimba dzokudhirowa dzine pokugara. Hotera iyi yaipa zvinhu zvisingaenzaniswi nedzimwe hotera dziri muUnited States. Izvi zvaisanganisira air conditioning mumakamuri ese eruzhinji nemvura yechando nemafeni mudzimba dzese dzevaenzi. Masevhisi aisanganisira masevhisi emazuva ese, kuwacha mbatya, imba yekugera, salon, garaji, bhodhi renhare, uye chipatara chidiki chinoshanda nachiremba. Iyo Mayflower yakaratidza maresitorendi matatu uye Grand Ballroom ine proscenium nhanho.

Muna 1925, Annex kuMayflower yakavakwa ine Presidential Suite uye Vice Presidential Suite. Yechipiri kusvika pauriri hwechisere yeAnnex yaive nedzimba dzevaenzi imwe neimwe iine makamuri mashanu ekurara uye yekugezera. Uriri hwekutanga hweAnnex hwakagarwa neMayflower Coffee Shop, yakawedzera kukwidziridzwa yepakutanga diki cafe iri pauriri hwepasi hwehotera iripo. Imba yepasi peAnnex yaigarwa newachira hombe yaishandira hotera yekutanga uye annex.

Pashure peKuderera Kukuru Kwezvemari uye Hondo Yenyika II, Hilton Hotels Corporation yakatenga Mayflower Hotel muna December 1946. Vaiva nayo uye vakaishandisa kwemakore gumi pavakawana cheni yeStatler Hotels. Vakamanikidzwa kutengesa Mayflower apo hurumende yakamhan'arira Hilton.

Kubva 1956 kusvika 2015, Mayflower Hotel yakatorwa nevaridzi vakasiyana-siyana vanosanganisira Hotel Corporation of America, May-Wash Associates, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Stouffer Corporation, Renaissance Hotels, Marriott International, Walton Street Capital neRockwood Capital Company.

Iyo Mayflower Hotel yakabata Iyo Inaugural Bhora reMutungamiri Calvin Coolidge masvondo maviri chete mushure mekuvhurwa kwayo. Yaiita bhora reKutanga makore mana ega ega kusvika yaita bhora rayo rekupedzisira muna Ndira 1981. Mutungamiri-akasarudzwa Herbert Hoover akavaka mahofisi echikwata chake chemutungamiri wenyika muhotera muna Ndira 1928, uye Mutevedzeri wake weMutungamiri, Charles Curtis, aigara imomo mune imwe yenzvimbo dzinogara hotera. dzimba dzevaenzi mumakore ake mana ari muhofisi. Louisiana Senator Huey Long aigarawo paMayflower, achitora masutu masere muhotera kubva muna Ndira 25, 1932, kusvika Kurume 1934. Mutungamiri-akasarudzwa Franklin D. Roosevelt akapedza Kurume 2 ne3 muSuites 776 ne781 paMayflower Hotel asati agadzwa. musi waMarch 4, 1932.

Zviitiko zviviri zvakakosha muHondo Yenyika II zvakaitika paMayflower. Muna June 1942, George John Dasch nevamwe vasori vanomwe vakabva kuNazi Germany vakapinda muUnited States pashure pokunge vatakurwa kuenda kumahombekombe eAmerica vachishandisa ngarava inofamba nepasi pemvura. Vavariro yavo, yainzi Operation Pastorius, yaive yekuita mhirizhonga vachipesana nehukuru hweUS. Asi mushure mekusangana neUnited States Coast Guard patrol nguva mushure mekumhara, Dasch akafunga kuti chirongwa ichi hachina basa. Musi waChikumi 19, 1942, akatarisa muRoom 351 paMayflower Hotel uye akakurumidza kutengesa shamwari dzake. Mwedzi gumi nemisere gare gare, komiti yeAmerican Legion yakasangana muRoom 570 paMayflower Hotel kubva muna Zvita 15 kusvika 31, 1943, kugadzira mutemo wekubatsira nhengo dzemauto dziri kudzoka kuti dzibatane munzanga. Mutemo wavo wavakanzi, Servicemen's Readjustment Act ya1944- unozivikanwa zvisina kurongwa seGI Bill- wakaiswa mugwaro rekupedzisira paMayflower Hotel zvekunyorwa.

Kaviri, Mayflower yanga iri nzvimbo yakatangwa chirongwa chemutungamiri weAmerica, uye kaviri yakaitisa zviitiko zvakaratidza kuti zviri kushandura kudomwa kwemutungamiri wenyika. Muna Kurume 1931, Franklin D. Roosevelt aikwikwidzana naAlfred Smith pakudomwa kwemutungamiri weDemocratic Republic of 1932. John J. Raskob, sachigaro weDemocratic National Committee (DNC), akapikisa Roosevelt kuti akwikwidze. Achiziva kuti Roosevelt akanga azvipira kubvisa Prohibition asi akanga asina kuita izvi pachena, Raskob akaedza kumanikidza DNC, ndokuzosangana paMayflower Hotel, kutora puranga "rakanyorova" (kana kubvisa) mupuratifomu yepati. Panzvimbo yekukwevera Roosevelt kunze, kufambisa uku kwakagumbura zvakanyanya veSouth "yakaoma" (anti-repeal) maDemocrat akasiya Smith ndokukanda rutsigiro rwavo kune anonzi Roosevelt ane mwero uye akamubatsira kuchengetedza kusarudzwa. Muna 1948, Mutungamiri Harry S. Truman akaudza vateereri vaifara veYoung Democrats of America pakudya kwemanheru paMayflower musi wa14 Chivabvu kuti vaida kutsvagazve sarudzo muna 1948. Aimbove mukuru wePeace Corps uye Office of Economic Opportunity director Sargent Shriver akazivisa kukwikwidza kuve Mutungamiriri weUnited States paMayflower musi wa20 Gunyana, 1975. Chirongwa chakabudirira zvikuru chakatanga ipapo apo Senator Barack Obama vakavhara kusarudzwa kwemutungamiri weDemocratic 2008 muna Chikumi 3, 2008. Hillary Clinton akabvuma kudomwa kuna Obama musi wa7 Chikumi. uye akasuma Obama kune vangangosvika mazana matatu evapi vanotungamira pamusangano paMayflower musi waChikumi 300, 26.

Munyori, Stanley Turkel, ane masimba anozivikanwa uye mupangamazano muindastiri yehotera. Iye anoshanda muhotera yake, kugamuchira vaeni uye kuita zvehunyanzvi kunoongorora manejimendi manejimendi, kushanda kuongororwa uye kushanda kwezvibvumirano zvekutengesa muhotera uye kupihwa rutsigiro. Vatengi varidzi vemahotera, vatengesi uye masangano ekukweretesa.

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