The Royal Sonesta Washington DC Dupont Circle is a 335-room, boutique hotel located at 2121 P Street Northwest in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
History
The Georgetown Hotel opened in 1967. It was constructed by Washington banker Leo M. Bernstein, one of the pioneers in redeveloping the Georgetown neighborhood as a posh residential district.[1]
In 1985, Bernstein sold the property to Omni Hotels,[2] and it became the Omni Georgetown Hotel.[3] Omni sold the hotel soon after to Bethesda-based Nordheimer Brothers Co., but continued to manage the property. In December 1988, Perpetual Savings Bank, which already held a $10 million second mortgage on the hotel, bought the $20 million first mortgage from Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.[4] Perpetual foreclosed on the hotel in 1991 and became the owner, but Perpetual failed soon after and went into receivership, causing the hotel to become the property of the U.S. government-owned