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The Westin Georgetown, Washington, D.C. is a luxury Postmodernist-style hotel located at 2350 M Street NW in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Completed in 1984, the hotel was originally known as The Regent, but changed its name in 1985 to The Grand. After the hotel's owners were declared bankrupt in October 1994, the corporate predecessors to Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide purchased the property in November 1995. Westin Hotels partnered with the new owners and rebranded the property first as The Westin Hotel in January 1996, then as The Westin Grand in 1999, and finally as The Westin Georgetown in 2010. Since 2011, The Westin Georgetown has been AAA-rated four diamonds. ==Construction of the hotel== By the 1960s, Washington, D.C.'s West End neighborhood was a decaying area of Victorian townhouses and abandoned light industrial sites. In 1974, the city significantly revised its zoning regulations. Among the changes, the city treated hotels the same as residential housing, which spurred a hotel construction boom. The Regent was developed by Square 37 Partners. Square 37 was a real estate development company created by The Kaempfer Company (then one of the D.C. area's largest real estate development companies) and Wallace F. Holladay, Sr. (developer and realtor married to Wilhelmina Holladay and co-founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts). Construction on The Regent hotel began in 1983, and was well under way by January 1984.〔 The structure was designed by David Childs of the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The firm of Charles Pfister, Inc., designed the interiors.〔〔 The 265-room hotel opened on April 30, 1984.〔〔 Joey Kaempfer, founder and owner of The Kaempfer Company, wanted no extravagance spared in the hotel's construction or operation.〔 The interior design scheme focused on the color purple.〔 Included among the rooms were two Presidential suites, five deluxe suites, and 24 executive suites.〔 The Presidential suites each had a working fireplace and dining room.〔 The common guest rooms were lavish, with silk wallpaper, furniture made of Honduran mahogany, and down mattresses and pillows. Each room had two phone lines, and each phone had the ability to place a person on "hold" (then an innovation).〔 The bathrooms were covered with Portuguese marble, with the bidet and toilet in a separate bathroom-within-a-bathroom.〔 Each bathroom featured a very large vanity, wall-mounted hair dryers, and a double-sized bath tub made of Italian marble which filled in under a single minute,〔 and each tub had a Swiss shower.〔 A separate whirlpool bath was included in each bathroom.〔 Each guest received a free monogrammed bathrobe, and each room was outfitted with a loofah and sponge, container full of cotton balls, and luxury bath gels and shampoo.〔 The hotel originally had two formal dining rooms, The Mayfair and The Promenade. An informal dining space, the Mayfair Grill, was adjacent to the lobby. The hotel also had a swimming pool, fitness center, ballroom, and meeting rooms. The $64 million structure was managed by Regent International Hotels,〔 which took a financial interest in the hotel. The Regent was the most expensive hotel ever built in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area (when judged on a cost-per-room basis).〔 Construction of the hotel helped complete a rapid transformation of the West End neighborhood that began in 1983.〔 For a time, the intersection of 24th and M Streets NW was known as "Hotel Corner",〔 because three new hotels existed here: The Regent on the southeast corner, what was then The Westin Georgetown on the northwest corner (finished in January 1986), and the Park Hyatt Washington on the northeast corner (finished in August 1986).〔 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 Westin Georgetown, Washington, D.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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