The Hay-Adams Hotel 
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Located in Lafayette Square across from the White House, The Hay-Adams is a revered landmark in Washington, DC. This classic hotel is named after the distinguished residents who previously lived on its site: John Hay, Private Assistant to President Abraham Lincoln and later Secretary of State, and Henry Adams, an acclaimed author and descendant of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The site has long been a favorite gathering place in the nation's capital. In fact, Hay, Adams, their wives, Clara and Marian and geologist Clarence King formed a close group of friends who dubbed themselves “The Five of Hearts.” They even had china and letterhead made that featured the moniker. In 1884, the Hays and Adamses bought adjoining lots at 16th and H Streets. Renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson designed elaborate, Romanesque homes that became Washington's leading salons for years. The stimulating discussions of politics, literature, science and art attracted the era's leading artists, writers and politicians, including sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain. Hay died in 1905, and after Clara died in 1914, ownership of the Hay house passed to their daughter Alice Wadsworth and her husband, Senator James Wadsworth. After Adams died in 1918, the Wadsworths bought his house, which they leased to the Brazilian Embassy.
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