Willard Hotel: Iyo Historic Luxury Residence yeVatungamiri

National Park Service neDhipatimendi reMukati meUnited States rinotsanangura nhoroondo yeWillard Hotel sezvinotevera:

Munyori wekuAmerica Nathaniel Hawthorne akacherechedza muma1860 kuti "Willard Hotel nenzira yakarurama yaigona kunzi pakati peWashington kudarika Capitol kana White House kana State Department." Kubva muna 1847 apo hama dzaWillard dzinokatyamadza, Henry naEdwin, vakatanga kugadzwa sevachengeti veimba yevaeni pakona ye14th Street nePennsylvania Avenue, Willard akabata niche yakasarudzika munhoroondo yeWashington nenyika.

The Willard Hotel yakavambwa zviri pamutemo naHenry Willard paakarenda zvivakwa zvitanhatu muna 1847, akazvibatanidza kuita chimiro chimwe chete, ndokuchiwedzera kuita hotera ine nhurikidzwa ina akatumidza zita rekuti Willard Hotel. Willard akatenga nzvimbo yehotera kubva kuna Ogle Tayloe muna 1864.

Mumakore ekuma1860, munyori Nathaniel Hawthorne akanyora kuti “Willard Hotel nenzira yakarurama yaigona kunzi muzinda weWashington pane kunzi Capitol kana White House kana kuti State Department.”

Kubva muna Kukadzi 4 kusvika Kukadzi 27, 1861, Runyararo Congress, ine vamiriri kubva ku21 yematunhu makumi matatu nemana, yakasangana paWillard mukuyedza-kwekupedzisira kudzivirira Hondo yeVanhu. Ibwe rakabva kuVirginia Civil War Commission, riri padivi pePennsylvania Ave. rehotera, rinorangarira kuedza kwoushingi uku. Gare gare gore iroro, pavakanzwa mauto eUnited States achiimba "Muviri waJohn Brown" sezvavaifamba pasi pehwindo rake, Julia Ward Howe akanyora mazwi e "The Battle Hym of the Republic" paaigara pahotera munaNovember 34.

Musi wa23 Kukadzi 1861, pakati pekutyisidzirwa kwekuuraya kwakawanda, mutikitivha Allan Pinkerton akaverevedza Abraham Lincoln muWillard; ikoko Lincoln akagara kusvika pakugadzwa kwake musi wa4 Kurume, achiita misangano mukamuri rokutandarira uye achiita bhizimisi ari mukamuri rake.

Mapurezidhendi mazhinji eUnited States akashanyira Willard, uye mutungamiri wenyika kubva Franklin Pierce akamborara kana kupinda chimwe chiitiko pahotera kamwechete; hotera saka inozivikanwawo se "nzvimbo yekugara yevatungamiriri." Yaiva tsika yaUlysses S. Grant kunwa whiskey nekuputa fodya vachizorora zvavo mumba yekutandarira. Ngano (inosimudzirwa nehotera) inotaura kuti aya ndiwo mavambo eshoko rokuti "kukurudzira," sezvo Grant aiwanzotaurirwa neavo vaitsvaka nyasha. Zvisinei, izvi zvimwe inhema, sezvo Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary inoshuma shoko rechiito rokuti “kukurudzira” kusvika muna 1837. Grover Cleveland akagara ikoko pakutanga kwetemu yake yechipiri muna 1893, nemhaka yokuitira hanya utano hwomwanasikana wake mucheche pashure pokunge misi ichangobva kupfuura iyi yakatanga. scarlet fever muWhite House. Zvirongwa zveWoodrow Wilson's League of Nations zvakatanga paakaita misangano yeLeague yekusimbisa Runyararo muhotera yehotera muna 1916. Vatanhatu vakagara Vatevedzeri veVatungamiri vakagara muWillard. Millard Fillmore naThomas A. Hendricks, munguva yake pfupi ari muhofisi, vaigara muWillard yekare; uyezve Vatevedzeri veVatungamiriri, James S. Sherman, Calvin Coolidge uye pakupedzisira Charles Dawes vose vaigara muchivakwa chiripo kwenguva inokwana chikamu chevatevedzeri vavo vemutungamiri. Fillmore naCoolidge vakaenderera mberi muWillard, kunyangwe mushure mekuva mutungamiri, kubvumira mhuri yekutanga nguva yekubuda muWhite House.

Mazana mazana evakuru vakuru, vazhinji vavo vakarwa nevarwi veHondo Yenyika I, vakatanga kuungana neMukuru weMauto, John J. “Blackjack” Pershing, paWillard Hotel musi wa2 Gumiguru, 1922, uye vakagadza zviri pamutemo Reserve Officers Association (ROA). ) sesangano.

Chimiro chezvino chine nhurikidzwa gumi nembiri, chakagadzirwa nemugadziri wehotera ane mukurumbira Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, chakavhurwa muna 12. Chakatambura moto mukuru muna 1901 izvo zvakakonzera $1922 (yakaenzana ne250,000 $ kubva muna 3,865,300), mukukuvara. Pakati peavo vakatozobviswa muhotera iyi ndiMutevedzeri weMutungamiriri weNyika, Calvin Coolidge, maseneta akati wandei ekuAmerica, munyori wenziyo John Philip Sousa, mugadziri wemifananidzo inofamba Adolph Zukor, mutsikisi webepanhau, Harry Chandler, nevamwe vazhinji vezvenhau, vemakambani, nevatungamiriri vezvematongerwo enyika vaivepo. yegore negore Gridiron Dinner. Kwemakore akawanda Willard ndiyo chete hotera yaikwanisa kushanyira zvese zviri nyore dhorobha reWashington, uye nekudaro yakagara vanoremekedzwa vazhinji munhoroondo yayo.

Mhuri yaWillard yakatengesa chikamu chayo chehotera muna 1946, uye nekuda kwekutadza kutonga uye kuderera kwakanyanya kwenzvimbo, hotera yakavharwa pasina chiziviso chakaitika musi waChikunguru 16, 1968. Chivako ichi chakagara chisipo kwemakore, uye zvirongwa zvakawanda zvakayangarara. kuparadzwa kwayo. Yakazopedzisira yawira muhafu-yeruzhinji kugamuchira uye yakatengeswa kuPennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation. Vakaita makwikwi ekugadziridza chivakwa ichi uye vakazochipa kuOliver Carr Company uye Golding Associates. Vaviri ava vakabva vaunza InterContinental Hotels Group kuti ive muridzi uye mushandisi wehotera. Iyo Willard yakazodzoserwa kune yayo-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-yemakore ekunaka uye hofisi-yekuvaka-yakagadziriswa yakawedzerwa. Saka hotera yakavhurwa mukati memhemberero huru musi wa20 Nyamavhuvhu 1986, iyo yakapindwa nevatongi vakati wandei veDare Repamusorosoro reUS nemaseneta eUS. Mukupera kwema1990, hotera zvakare yakave nekugadziriswa kwakakosha.

Martin Luther King Jr., akanyora hurukuro yake ine mukurumbira "Ini Ndine Chiroto" mukamuri yake yehotera paWillard mumazuva anotungamira kusvika Nyamavhuvhu 28, 1963 Kurume paWashington yeMabasa neRusununguko.

Musi waSeptember 23, 1987, zvakashumwa kuti Bob Fosse akadonha muimba yake paWillard uye akazofa. Zvakazozivikanwa kuti akafira kuGeorge Washington University Hospital.

Pakati pevamwe vashanyi vazhinji vaWillard vane mukurumbira vaive PT Barnum, Walt Whitman, General Tom Thumb, Samuel Morse, Duke weWindsor, Harry Houdini, Gypsy Rose Lee, Gloria Swanson, Emily Dickinson, Jenny Lind, Charles Dickens, Bert Bell, Joe Paterno. , uye Jim Sweeney.

Steven Spielberg akapfura mhedziso yefirimu yake Minority Report pahotera muzhizha ra2001. Akanyora naTom Cruise naMax von Sydow muWillard Room, Peacock Alley nekicheni.

Iri pamabhuroko maviri chete kubva kuWhite House, hotera iyi yakazara nezvipoko zvevakakurumbira uye vane simba. Kwemakore, yanga iri nzvimbo yekuunganidzira vatungamiri, vezvematongerwo enyika, magavhuna, nyanzvi dzekunyora uye dzetsika. Paive paWillard apo Julia Ward Howe akagadzira "Rwiyo rweHondo yeRepublic." Gen. Ulysses S. Grant vakabata dare muimba yekutandarira uye Abraham Lincoln akakwereta masiripi emba kubva kumuridzi wayo.

Vatungamiri Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Taft, Wilson, Coolidge naHarding vakagara paWillard. Vamwe vaenzi vane mukurumbira vanosanganisira Charles Dickens, Buffalo Bill, David Lloyd George, PT Barnum, nevamwe vasingaverengeki. Walt Whitman akabatanidza Willard mundima dzake uye Mark Twain akanyora mabhuku maviri ikoko mukutanga kwema1900. Aive Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri Thomas R. Marshall, atsamwiswa nemitengo yakakwira yaWillard, akagadzira mutsara wekuti "Inodiwa nenyika ino ifodya yakanaka ye5-cent."

Willard akagara asina munhu kubva muna 1968 uye ari mungozi yekuputswa kusvika 1986 apo yakadzorerwa pakubwinya kwayo kwekare. Chirongwa chekudzorera madhora mamiriyoni makumi manomwe netatu chakanyatsorongwa neNational Park Service kuti hotera iyi igadziriswe sezvaibvira kare. Pendi gumi nenhanhatu dzakakweshwa kubva muhuni kuti vaone kuti hotera yacho yaive nemavara ekutanga muna 73.

New York Times muongorori wezvekuvaka Paul Goldberger akanyora musi waGunyana 2, 1986:

Kudzoreredzwa kwakawanda kwezvivakwa zvinoremekedzwa kunowira mune chimwe chezvikamu zviviri kungave kuedza kudzoreredza zvakatendeseka sezvaimbove zvakambove, kana idzo dudziro dzekutanga dzinoshandisa chivakwa chepakutanga senzvimbo yekusvetuka-svetuka.

Iyo ichangobva kugadziridzwa Willard Hotel zvese zviri zviviri. Hafu yeiyi purojekiti inosanganisira kudzoreredza zvine rukudzo kwechivako chikuru chemuhotera cheWashington, chimiro chakakurumbira cheBeaux-Arts naHenry Hardenbergh icho chakange chabviswa kubvira 1968, akabatwa nekuderera kwenzvimbo yaro, mashoma mabhure kumabvazuva kweWhite House. Iyo imwe hafu yakafemerwa nemufaro, nyowani nyowani yekuwedzera ine mahofisi, zvitoro, yeruzhinji plaza uye new ballet yehotera.

Stanley Turkel yakasarudzwa sa2020 Historian wegore neHistoric Hotels of America, chirongwa chepamutemo cheNational Trust for Historic Preservation, icho chaakambodaidzwa kunzi 2015 na2014.Turkel ndiye mupepeti wehotera akaburitswa zvakanyanya muUnited States. Iye anoshanda yake yekutarisisa hotera tsika achishanda sehunyanzvi chapupu mune zvine chekuita nehotera zviitiko, inopa asset manejimendi uye hotera franchising kubvunza. Iye anozivikanwa sa Master Hotel Supplier Emeritus neiyo Educational Institute yeAmerican Hotel uye Lodging Association. [email inodzivirirwa] 917-628-8549

Bhuku rake idzva "Great American Hotel Architects Vhoriyamu 2" ichangoburitswa.

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