Hall on Virginia Avenue (HOVA)

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Building

Title: Hall on Virginia Avenue (HOVA)

Address: 2601 Virginia Avenue, N.W.

Square and lot, bordering streets: NA (Virginia Avenue, New Hampshire)

Architect: Unknown

Date of construction: Unknown

Original owner: Unknown

Description: Removed from the rest of the campus, this tall building rises above a landscape dotted with late 19th century row houses and dissected by several major arterial roads. This former Howard Johnson hotel now serves as a residence hall, being acquired in 1999. Room 723 was used by the Watergate burglars as a “lookout.”

Formerly on this square: Rowhouses, Howard Johnson Hotel

Historic designation: None

Document Information

Images: 0
Photographic Credit: n/a
Author or Source: Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey Of Properties In Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C.,1999; University Archives collections
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: January 18, 2007
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist

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