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The Fairfax at Embassy Row is a historic luxury hotel located at 2100 Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The Fairfax is designated as a contributing property to the Dupont Circle Historic District and the Massachusetts Avenue Historic District. ==About the hotel== The Fairfax Hotel opened in 1927 and was designed by architect B. Stanley Simmons. Colonel H. Grady Gore and his wife bought the hotel in 1932.〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/10/26/accommodating-a-hotels-good-name/889dacb3-a700-4cb1-8601-83fae3534d39/〕 It operated as a combination transient/residential hotel and was the home of numerous government figures. Famous residents included Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, Admiral and Mrs. Chester William Nimitz, and Senator John L. McClellan.〔 Future President George H.W. Bush and his parents, Senator and Mrs. Prescott Bush, lived at The Fairfax when in Washington. Future Vice President Al Gore's family lived in the three-bedroom suite on the hotel's top floor for a total of twenty years during his youth.〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1986/11/16/when-a-names-inn-advisable/0480d29f-61a4-45a4-8f31-778a0dbb752f〕 Gore's father Albert Gore, Sr. was a senator from Tennessee and was also the cousin of the owner. The Fairfax was also a popular residence of families in the Foreign Service, as it was the only establishment with kitchens that fell within the limited temporary-housing allowance provided by the State Department.〔 The hotel hosted the first inaugural breakfast for President Dwight Eisenhower in January 1953.〔http://www.starwoodhotels.com/luxury/property/overview/history.html?propertyID=245〕 Grady Gore and his wife Jamie sold the hotel〔 to John B. Coleman in 1977 for $5 million.〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1977/10/22/fairfax-hotel-bought-by-chicago-industrialist/b4d217f8-a9c0-4968-ab5a-3eb1521bf0f4/〕 Coleman soon invested $10 in a renovation, and then renamed The Fairfax The Ritz-Carlton Washington, D.C. in 1982, having licensed the name from Gerald Blakely, owner of the Ritz-Carlton in Boston,〔http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/11/business/business-people-two-from-citicorp-join-hotel-concern.html〕 for a fee of 1.5 percent of the Washington hotel's annual gross revenue.〔 When the modern Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company was created in the mid-1980s, they assumed management of the hotel.〔 The hotel was in bankruptcy from 1986 until 1988. Al Anwa USA, controlled by Saudi Arabian Sheik Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim, bought the hotel in 1989〔http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB87064261470937500〕 and again renovated it at a cost of $15 million. Ritz-Carlton and Al Anwa 〔 eventually fell out over how much the management company should be paid to run the hotel〔 in what proved to be a bitter legal dispute that began in 1995 and lasted two years. On August 2, 1997, Ritz-Carlton terminated its management contract with Al Anwa, the owner of the property and three other Ritz-Carlton hotels in Aspen, Houston and New York. The four Al Anwa hotels all dropped the Ritz-Carlton name on August 14, 1997,〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/08/16/sheraton-moves-in-at-ex-ritz-hotels/06d47322-5b09-4abd-8500-7c4e5faead2d/〕 and ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection〔 began managing them.〔〔http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/ITT-Sheraton-Adds-Former-Ritzes-to-Luxury-Collection-〕 The hotels then all began operating, confusingly, with no names, each was just known as ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection Hotel.〔〔http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/itt-sheraton-corporation-selected-to-manage-four-former-ritz-carlton-hotels---all-joining-the-luxury-collection-75070512.html〕 ITT Sheraton was sold to Starwood in October 1997, and Starwood bought the four nameless hotels from Al Anwa in January 1998.〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112500867.html〕 Starwood announced that same month that they would rename the Washington hotel The St. Regis. However that never happened. (The St. Regis name would eventually be given to another Starwood property nearby, The Carlton Hotel, in 1999.)〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1999/02/08/starwoods-grand-plan-for-its-brand-of-hotels/2b77cacc-0013-45f1-a424-ab6b62f61bc5/〕 Meanwhile, the hotel continued to operate without a name〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1998/09/01/puttin-a-new-name-on-the-old-ritz/5c268e49-2eb0-4e27-99ac-89c5db1af8d4/〕 until it was finally renamed The Westin Fairfax on October 14, 1998.〔http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/former-ritz-carlton-becomes-the-westin-fairfax-washington-dc-76989202.html〕 The hotel was then renamed again in April 2002, becoming The Westin Embassy Row, because Starwood worried that the name ''Fairfax'' would make travelers think the hotel was not in Washington, but in nearby suburban Fairfax County, Virginia.〔http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/03/18/daily14.html〕 In January 2006, Pyramid Advisors LLC purchased The Westin Embassy Row along with two other Starwood hotels in San Diego and Framingham, Massachusetts, for a total of $146 million.〔https://www.hotelexecutive.com/newswire/22936/pyramid-buys-three-starwood-assets-sets-renovation-plan〕 Pyramid closed the hotel in 2007 and spent $27.1 million renovating the property. The hotel reopened in November 2008 as The Fairfax at Embassy Row.〔 Although the hotel is managed by Pyramid Hotel Group, it continued to be branded a Starwood Luxury Collection hotel until 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Fairfax at Embassy Row」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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