[Assignment: 48-DPA-03-14-08_K_BLM_All_Emp_MF] [Exterior views of] Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., [site of] Bureau of Land Management All-Employee Town Hall Meeting and Awards Ceremony [48-DPA-03-14-08_K_BLM_All_Emp_MF_IOD_2240.JPG]

The Mayflower Hotel is a historic hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. The largest luxury hotel in the District of Columbia, the longest continuously operating hotel in the Washington D.C., it is known as the "Grande Dame of Washington", the "Hotel of Presidents", and as the city's "Second Best Address" (the White House is the first). The Mayflower Hotel was built by Allen E. Walker, Initially called the Hotel Walker, it was to have 11 stories, 1,100 rooms, and cost $6.2 million ($87,650,497 in 2016 dollars). It opened on February 18, 1925.