The Washington Hilton is a Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C. It is located at 1919 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., roughly at the boundaries of the Kalorama, Dupont Circle, and Adams Morgan neighborhoods.
Washington Hilton
Oak Lawn (Washington, D.C.)
Oak Lawn was a large house and wooded estate that once stood on the edge of today's Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. The estate was bounded by 19th Street, Columbia Road, Connecticut Avenue, and Florida Avenue. Previously called Widow's Mite, the estate was originally several hundred acres, but by the 19th century, had been reduced to around 10 acres. The house was built around 1820 and was greatly expanded in 1873 by Thomas P. Morgan, one half of the eponym of the Adams Morgan neighborhood. A large oak tree, nicknamed the Treaty Oak, was reportedly hundreds of years old and stood just a few yards from the house.
The Oak Lawn house and Treaty Oak, as viewed from the Florida Avenue driveway, around 1900.
In the first half of the 20th century Oak Lawn was a wooded area wedged between heavily developed neighborhoods.
Frank Lloyd Wright's 1940 design of the unbuilt Crystal Heights project
The Washington Hilton, Universal South Building, and Universal North Building, built between 1956 and 1965.
