The Jefferson, Washington, DC

A 1923 Beaux-Arts townhouse-hotel on 16th Street, five blocks from the White House – 99 rooms, Two MICHELIN Keys, Monticello-licensed furnishings under a restored 1920s skylight, and Plume.

Four-star · From $500 per night

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White House, Downtown & West End · Washington, DC

A sense of the place

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First light over White House, Downtown & West End

Golden hour over White House, Downtown & West End

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Why it's in the collection

Because Two MICHELIN Keys make this independent house one of the city's two Two-Key hotels, alongside the Rosewood – a 1923 townhouse five blocks from the White House that enters on its Keys, and we list it in the four-star tier.

Two MICHELIN Keys in 2025 – one of two Two-Key hotels in Washington, alongside the Rosewood; no Forbes star rating, so the hotel enters on its Keys, and we say so.
1200 16th Street NW, five blocks north of the White House – a Beaux-Arts building of 1923, reopened as a hotel in 2009 with Monticello-licensed furnishings under a restored 1920s skylight.
Plume, the dining room, holds a MICHELIN star and a Forbes Five-Star rating of its own as a restaurant – the rating is the restaurant's, not the hotel's – with The Greenhouse and Quill alongside.
99 rooms, independent and unflagged – the collection's other independent house besides The Hay-Adams a few blocks down 16th Street – and sold through Virtuoso.

Suites and rates

Every rate is confirmed with you by the concierge before anything is booked — cancellation terms in plain language, no surprises.

Signature room

The house standard — generous, quiet, impeccably kept.

From $500per night

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One-bedroom suite

A separate living room and space to settle in.

From $900per night

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Specialty suite

The property's finest views and largest floor plans.

From $1,500per night

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The neighborhood

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White House, Downtown & West End

Lafayette Square, 16th Street, Pennsylvania Avenue and the West End – six hotels within a walk of the White House, the Smithsonian museums on the Mall and the Kennedy Center.

Lafayette Square and the White House, five blocks south on 16th Street.
Dupont Circle's bookshops and cafés, a few blocks northwest.
The National Geographic Museum, a block west on M Street.

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