These adjacent neighborhoods are home to independent and national-brand shops, trendy restaurants and bars, parks, performance venues, and the city’s only year-round farmer’s market. In Dupont Circle, the quirky O Street Museum weaves together storytelling, the arts, music, sports, science, pop culture, and history with immersive exhibits and galleries, plus more than 80 secret doors and covert passages. Logan Circle, flanked by Victorian mansions, is the city’s last residential circle. Logan Circle’s Studio Theatre has four small theaters to seat up to 218 guests, a 200-person-capacity atrium, and other event spaces. In Shaw, one of the city’s hippest up-and-coming neighborhoods, the former Cambria Hotel Washington, DC Convention Center is set to reopen in summer 2025 as Hyatt House Washington DC, with 182 guest rooms, meeting space, and a rooftop terrace.
New hotels include Placemakr Dupont Circle, part of a curated line of apartment-hotel properties offering flexible lodging experiences for nightly, short-, or long-term stays, as well as business and group travel, with studio and one-bedroom units and limited meeting and event spaces. According to Destination DC, Royal Sonesta Dupont Circle is expected to rebrand as The James, one of three properties nationwide under this flag. The hotel currently offers 335 guest rooms and more than 10,000 square feet of flexible event space.
Other hotels in the neighborhoods include Washington Hilton, a Destination DC Sustainability District member, with 1,107 guest rooms and suites and more than 108,000 square feet of meeting and event space; 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; and The Mayflower Hotel, Autograph Collection, with 581 guest rooms and nearly 43,000 square feet of ballrooms and meeting rooms.
In Shaw, The Howard Theatre dual-purpose concert and event space accommodates 700 for receptions and seats 600 theater style. In Dupont Circle, Swingers, an indoor “crazy golf” club with two courses, three cocktail bars, and eight private event rooms, can host 450 people for social events or teambuilding experiences; the President Woodrow Wilson House has indoor and garden venues to host 250 reception guests; and Friends Meeting of Washington, a Destination DC Sustainability District member, has historic and environmentally sustainable event space for up to 300 guests.
