A 1923 Beaux-Arts mansion four blocks from the White House. The Thomas Jefferson archive and the Plume restaurant make it DC's most intellectually serious hotel.
The Jefferson Washington DC opened in 1923 as a luxury residential building on 16th Street NW — the avenue that runs directly north from the White House through the city's most diplomatically significant neighbourhood — and has been operated as a boutique hotel since 1955. The hotel maintains an archive of Thomas Jefferson materials — including signed documents, first editions of Notes on the State of Virginia, and reproductions of his personal wine cellar — that give the property an intellectual character unique among DC hotels.
The 99 rooms are finished in a warm, period-appropriate palette that references Jefferson's Monticello interiors without replicating them. The corner suites, with their 16th Street views and their proportions suited to the building's 1923 ambition, are the most historically coherent hotel rooms in Washington DC. The wine programme, curated around Jeffersonian varietals — Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Virginia wines that Jefferson would have recognised — is the most thematic cellar in any DC hotel.
Plume restaurant, the hotel's signature dining room, serves a contemporary American menu with a wine programme that reflects the Jefferson archive's preoccupation with European viticulture. The restaurant's private dining room, with its Jefferson portraits and first-edition books, is the most intellectually atmospheric corporate entertainment venue in Washington DC.
The Jefferson's combination of political history, the Plume private dining room, and the 16th Street location — four blocks from the White House and adjacent to the McPherson Square lobbying corridor — makes it the DC hotel of choice for think-tank leadership, senior government officials, and the private sector that works alongside them. See all business hotels →
An anniversary at The Jefferson is an anniversary in American history — the Thomas Jefferson archive, the Plume dinner, and the 16th Street location produce a stay that is specifically Washington in its cultural register. The hotel's 99-room scale ensures that anniversary arrangements receive genuine individual attention from the concierge team. See all anniversary hotels →
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