For Immediate Release:

1733 N Street is perhaps not a historic building, but the address itself is rich in history – once part of a stretch of row houses, it was the home of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt in the 1910s. The young couple rented the house while Franklin served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Woodrow Wilson Administration. Theodore Roosevelt was also a frequent visitor to the house during his presidency, as the owner was his sister.

The present 10-story building was completed in 1964 and has alternated as an apartment complex and hotel over the last 50 years. The primarily interior renovation project retained the existing 143-key occupancy and classification, the existing stairs and elevators; the rest was a gut renovation making way for a new state-of-the-art Courtyard by Marriott.

The new property features a ground-floor hotel lobby, restaurant, and bar. The storefront seating has operable windows that engage Dupont Circle’s streetscape. Building improvements included the installation of new mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology systems. An additional stair and chair lift was added to meet code requirements at the basement and sub-basement levels, where the new fitness room, central kitchen, and staff spaces reside.

The hotel’s guestrooms are newly appointed in all of Marriott’s finest upper-select service finishes and furnishings. In addition, exterior renovations were in keeping with standards for alterations and improvements for a building located in a Historic District.

The new Courtyard by Marriott Dupont Circle, completed by L.F. Jennings for Douglas Development,  opened for business this past winter and is already entrenched into the neighborhood’s vibrant street life.