The cosmopolitan neighborhoods of Dupont Circle, Logan Circle, and Shaw are home to renowned boutiques, indie bookstores, trendy restaurants and bars, parks, performance venues, and beautiful Victorian mansions.
Hotels with significant event space include Washington Hilton, a Destination DC Sustainability District member, with 1,107 guest rooms and suites and more than 118,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including a 30,000-square-foot ballroom; The Dupont Circle, The Doyle Collection, Washington DC, with 327 guest rooms, penthouse-level suites, and more than 10,000 square feet of event space in six venues; The Darcy Hotel, with 226 guest rooms and 10,000 square feet of event space; and The Mayflower Hotel, Autograph Collection, with 581 guest rooms and nearly 43,000 square feet of ballrooms and meeting rooms to host up to 1,000 guests; and Royal Sonesta Washington DC Dupont Circle, with 335 guest rooms and more than 11,000 square feet of flexible function space.
For smaller gatherings, the newly rebranded Eurostars St Gregory Dupont Circle Georgetown has 156 guest rooms and four event rooms with a capacity of 200 for receptions, all set in elegant mid-century styling. Kimpton Banneker Hotel has 144 guest rooms and 3,800 square feet of event space, including Lady Bird, an open-air, year-round rooftop bar and terrace. Churchill Hotel near Embassy Row, a member of Historic Hotels of America, has space to accommodate up to 125 people for receptions. In Shaw, near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the newly rebranded Hyatt House Washington DC/Downtown/Convention Center (formerly the Cambria Hotel Washington, DC Convention Center) has 184 guest rooms, meeting space for 70 guests, and a rooftop terrace.
Offsite event venues include Howard Theatre, a dual-purpose concert and event space with a capacity of 700 for receptions and 600 theater style; the President Woodrow Wilson House, with garden space to accommodate 200 for receptions and indoor spaces for up to 40 people; Friends Meeting of Washington, a historic Quaker meeting house and Destination DC Sustainability District member, with indoor and garden event space for up to 300 guests; Studio Theatre, with two fixed-seat theaters, a black box theater, an atrium, and other spaces; and Swingers Dupont Circle, a multipurpose venue featuring indoor “crazy golf,” cocktail bars, carnival games, upscale street food vendors, and private event rooms with a capacity of 450 people. In Dupont Circle, the quirky O Museum in The Mansion is an immersive, tactile experience with more than 100 rooms and more than 80 secret doors; it can accommodate 160 people for banquets or 300 for receptions.
