travel42 Hotel Review: Kimpton Hotel Monaco Washington DC

Kimpton Hotel Monaco Washington DC travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Facing the stately facade of the National Portrait Museum, one block from the Gallery Place Metro station, occupying the entire block between Seventh and Eighth streets, this top-shelf design hotel is housed in a National Historic Landmark, the former home of the General Post Office and Tariff Building.

When the neoclassical structure was completed in 1830, it was the first marble building in the nation's capital. Modeled after the Temple of Jupiter in Ro...