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40-773: Built on the site of a house built by Brainerd Warner, the Washington financier and real-estate developer who created Kensington, Maryland , The Fairfax Hotel was designed by architect B. Stanley Simmons and opened in 1927. In 1932, it was purchased by Colonel H. Grady Gore and his wife Jamie. It operated as a combination transient/residential hotel and was the home of numerous government figures. Famous residents included Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, Admiral and Mrs. Chester William Nimitz , and Senator John L. McClellan . Future President George H. W. Bush and his parents, Senator and Mrs. Prescott Bush , lived at The Fairfax when in Washington. Future Vice President Al Gore 's family lived in

80-450: A median income of $ 65,804 versus $ 41,364 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 35,919. About 0.9% of families and 2.1% of the population were below the poverty line , including none of those under age 18 and 1.3% of those age 65 or over. Kensington is primarily a bedroom community for workers who commute to jobs in the Washington, D.C., area, but it has some commercial enterprises, including "Antique Row" on Howard Avenue,

120-402: A partnership with Preferred Hotels & Resorts . The hotel permanently closed on September 7, 2021, after Westbrook Partners sold the property to Maplewood Senior Living and Omega Healthcare Investors Inc. for $ 58.1 million. The new owners are converting the structure to a 174-unit retirement home named Inspir Embassy Row (styled as Inspīr Embassy Row). The Jockey Club restaurant opened in

160-526: A streetcar line founded as Chevy Chase Lake & Kensington Railway and later called the Kensington Railway Company. The large southernmost section originally mapped out by Warner remains largely unchanged since inception, and is a historically preserved zone. Indeed, the only major changes in the town's basic layout have been the bridging of the original railroad crossing in 1937, and the extension and widening of Connecticut Avenue ,

200-508: A total of $ 146 million. Pyramid closed the hotel in 2007 and spent $ 27.1 million renovating the property. The hotel reopened in November 2008 as The Fairfax at Embassy Row , as part of The Luxury Collection division of Starwood. The hotel was acquired by Westbrook Partners at a foreclosure auction in April 2011. The Fairfax dropped its affiliation with Starwood on November 5, 2015, in favor of

240-567: A variety of destinations including Silver Spring , Glenmont station , Medical Center station , and Wheaton . 39°01′34″N 77°04′22″W  /  39.026009°N 77.072891°W  / 39.026009; -77.072891 Holiday (magazine) Holiday was an American travel magazine published from 1946 to 1977, whose circulation grew to more than one million subscribers at its height. The magazine employed writers such as Alfred Bester , Truman Capote , Joan Didion , Lawrence Durell , James Michener , and E. B. White . In 2014,

280-613: Is a bi-annual, conceived in Paris and written in English. Its official website mentions an upcoming café and clothing line. Durand described the new magazine, "It is not like the old Holiday when they had millions and they'd travel for weeks and week. But the concept is the same." The issue n°373 of Holiday Magazine , first issue since the relaunch, was dedicated to the year 1969 and Ibiza. The issue n°373 includes contributions from photographers Josh Olins, Karim Sadli and Mark Peckmezian,

320-482: Is also home to: Four state highways serve Kensington. The most prominent of these is Maryland Route 185 ( Connecticut Avenue ), which provides the most direct link between Kensington and both Interstate 495 (the Capital Beltway) and Washington, D.C. The other major state highway serving the town is Maryland Route 193 , which follows University Boulevard and Greenbelt Road east from Kensington across

360-420: Is held in even-numbered years for a two-year term. Kensington has a four-member council, elected for two-year terms. Terms are staggered. Every year there are two council seats up for election. For contested elections, election winners are noted in bold. The 2021 Kensington Town Election was held on June 7, 2021 The 2020 Kensington Town Election was held on June 1, 2020 The 2019 Kensington Town Election

400-614: The U.S. Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.50 square miles (1.29 km ), all land. While the town proper is but one-half square mile in size, the Kensington post office ( ZIP Code 20895) serves a larger area, including all of the neighboring town of Chevy Chase View as well as most of the unincorporated neighborhoods known by the Census Bureau as North Kensington and South Kensington . The 20895 ZIP Code also extends into smaller portions of North Bethesda and

440-558: The Fairfax at Embassy Row four diamonds out of five in 2009. The hotel maintained that rating for many years before it closed, and received four diamonds again for 2016. Forbes Travel Guide (formerly known as Mobil Guide) declined to give the hotel either five or four stars in 2016, instead calling it "recommended". Kensington, Maryland Kensington is a U.S. town in Montgomery County , Maryland . The population

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480-513: The Fairfax in 1961. It was created by Louise Gore, daughter of the owner, Grady Gore, and modeled on the continental restaurants she had come to know when she worked for UNESCO in Paris . She named the restaurant after a private club in London and a restaurant in Madrid. Within a year, Holiday magazine had called The Jockey Club Washington's first elegant restaurant. The restaurant remained one of

520-712: The Ritz-Carlton name on August 14, 1997, and ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection began managing them. Every one of them, confusingly, was renamed ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection Hotel . ITT Sheraton was sold to Starwood in October 1997, and Starwood bought the four nameless hotels from Al Anwa in January 1998. Starwood announced that same month that they would rename the Washington hotel The St. Regis, but that never happened. (The St. Regis name would be given in 1999 to The Carlton Hotel , another Starwood property nearby.) Meanwhile,

560-529: The South Pacific, for example. It was an intriguing way to put together a magazine. It was an oddball publication that used photographs to tell stories". Paul Theroux writing about Paul Bowles said of the magazine, "The frivolous name masked a serious literary mission. The English fiction writers, V. S. Pritchett and Lawrence Durrell also traveled for this magazine, so did John Steinbeck after he won his Nobel Prize for literature, when he crisscrossed

600-530: The United States with his dog....Bowles wrote a piece for Holiday about hashish, another of his enthusiasms, since he was a life-long stoner. The magazine came of age in the Jet Age , when Americans were beginning to travel for leisure and joining the jet set was a glamorous aspiration. A Vanity Fair article in 2013 stated that "what Vogue did for fashion, Holiday did for destinations. Many remember

640-633: The West Howard Antique District, and Kaiser-Permanente's Kensington facility, plus art shops, restaurants, supermarkets, auto repair shops, hardware stores, and others. The town hosts a website, Explore Kensington, listing businesses, services, news and events. The town hosts a farmers' market on Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the train station . The town is home to the Noyes Library for Young Children, Montgomery County's oldest public library. A mayoral election

680-683: The Wheaton Planning District. The look and white color of the Washington D.C. Temple located in South Kensington, coupled with its location near the Capital Beltway , have made it a local landmark. D.C.-area traffic reports often refer to the "Mormon temple" or "temple". As of the census of 2010, there were 2,213 people, 870 households, and 563 families residing in the town. The population density

720-428: The age of 18 living with them, 51.8% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.9% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.3% were non-families. 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.17. The median age in

760-426: The atmosphere of the editorial department as resembling Mad-Men . The son of executive editor Carl Biemiller described the atmosphere "there was one hell of a cocktail-party circuit..." E. B. White wrote his 7500-word essay on the city of New York, " Here is New York ", for the magazine in 1949. White's stepson, Roger Angell , worked at the magazine in 1948.The essay was published as a gift book by Harper and it

800-553: The city's most famous watering holes for the rich and politically powerful for decades. The restaurant was popular with members of the Kennedy family, Nancy Reagan , Vernon Jordan , and celebrities including Marlon Brando , Frank Sinatra and Warren Beatty . The Jockey Club closed in 2001 and was replaced by a restaurant named Cabo. It was revived in its original space in 2008, after an absence of seven years. However it did not prove financially successful and closed again in 2011. It

840-509: The end of the first year the circulation topped 425,000. The magazine was known as a cosmopolitan travel wishbook with photo essays in full-color oversize 11 X 13.5 package along with articles by famous authors. John Lewis Stage, a photographer for Holiday described how Patrick enlisted name authors: "The concept was basically to get famous authors who had maybe one or two weeks in between their books or projects to go and travel and write glorious pieces. So you’d have James Michener sent off to

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880-532: The first inaugural breakfast for President Dwight Eisenhower in January 1953. In 1977, the Gores sold the hotel to John B. Coleman for $ 5 million. Coleman soon spent $ 10 million on a renovation, and renamed the hotel The Ritz-Carlton Washington, D.C. in 1982, having licensed the name from Gerald Blakely, owner of the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, for a fee of 1.5 percent of the Washington hotel's annual gross revenue. When

920-625: The hotel continued to operate without a name until October 14, 1998, when it was renamed The Westin Fairfax . The hotel was renamed again in April 2002, becoming The Westin Embassy Row , because Starwood worried that the name Fairfax would make travelers think the hotel was not in Washington, but in nearby suburban Fairfax County, Virginia . In January 2006, Pyramid Advisors LLC purchased The Westin Embassy Row, along with two other Starwood hotels in San Diego and Framingham, Massachusetts, for

960-577: The magazine was making almost $ 10 million a year in revenue, and by the next year circulation had grown to just under a million. After Ted Patrick's sudden death in 1964 there were internal issues between the current staff and Curtis Publishing Company over the direction of the magazine. Don A. Schanche of The Saturday Evening Post succeeded Patrick as editor. In response four of the editors, Harry Sions (editorial director), Frank Zachary (managing editor), Albert H. Farnsworth (executive editor), and Louis F. V. Mercier (pictures editor) resigned. Several of

1000-685: The magazine was relaunched as a bi-annual magazine based in Paris, but written in English. Launched by the Curtis Publishing Company , the first issue of Holiday appeared in March 1946. The magazine was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the Curtis Center near Independence Hall . After a lackluster start, with the fifth issue Ted Patrick became editor, a position he held until his sudden death in 1964. By

1040-612: The magazine's writers, artists and photographers put out a large ad in the New York Times to "salute" the four as "good editors." In 1977, Curtis sold Holiday to the publisher of Travel , a competing magazine, who merged the titles as a new publication, Travel Holiday . Holiday relaunched in April 2014 by the Atelier Franck Durand, a Paris-based art direction studio, with Marc Beaugé as editor-in-chief and Franck Durand as creative director. The magazine

1080-430: The mayor and council to name the town "Kensington". Originally a farming community at Knowles Station, Kensington developed into a summer refuge for Washington residents wishing to escape the capital's humid summers. As years passed and its residents increasingly remained year-round, Kensington evolved into a commuter suburb . Commuters reached downtown Washington, D.C., on B&O passenger trains and, beginning in 1895,

1120-712: The modern Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company was created in the mid-1980s, they assumed management of the hotel. The hotel was in bankruptcy from 1986 until 1988. Al Anwa USA, controlled by Saudi Arabian Sheik Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim al-Ibrahim, bought the hotel in 1989 and renovated it at a cost of $ 15 million. In 1995, Ritz-Carlton and Al Anwa fell into a bitter, two-year legal dispute over the management company's fee. On August 2, 1997, Ritz-Carlton ended its management contract with Al Anwa, which also owned Ritz-Carlton hotels in Aspen, Houston and New York. The four Al Anwa hotels all dropped

1160-572: The northern and northeastern suburbs of Washington. The other two state highways, Maryland Route 192 and Maryland Route 547 , are short connectors linking Kensington to nearby communities. The MARC Brunswick Line stops at Kensington station . It connects downtown Kensington with Washington, D.C. via Union Station , as well as with points west including Point of Rocks, Maryland , and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia . Multiple Ride On buses serve Kensington, including lines 4, 5, 33, 34, and 37. These buses take passengers from downtown Kensington to

1200-558: The three-bedroom suite on the hotel's top floor for a total of twenty years during his youth. Gore's father Albert Gore, Sr. was a senator from Tennessee and was also the cousin of the owner. The Fairfax was also a popular residence of families in the Foreign Service, as it was the only establishment with kitchens that fell within the limited temporary-housing allowance provided by the State Department. The hotel hosted

1240-510: The town center when the tracks separated at an overheated joint , injuring 95. And on October 2, 2002, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera became the fifth victim of the " Beltway snipers " while cleaning her car at a Kensington gas station. Kensington is located in Montgomery County, northwest of Silver Spring , northeast of Bethesda , west of Wheaton and southeast of Rockville . Its latitude is 39°1′48″N, longitude 77°4′30″W. According to

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1280-408: The town was 42.1 years. 26.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24% were from 25 to 44; 30% were from 45 to 64; and 14.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 47.6% male and 52.4% female. As of the census of 2000, the median income for a household in the town was $ 76,716, and the median income for a family was $ 96,394. Males had

1320-423: The town's main thoroughfare, in 1957. As well, the right-of-way of the streetcar line, which was replaced with bus service in 1935, was paved to become Kensington Parkway. In March 1975, Kensington gained attention regionally when Sheila and Katherine Lyon walked to Wheaton Plaza , a local shopping mall, and never returned home. Their abduction and murder was solved only in 2017. The historic core of Kensington

1360-560: Was 2,122 at the 2020 census . Greater Kensington encompasses the entire 20895 ZIP code, with a population of 19,753 in 2020. The area around Rock Creek where Kensington is located was primarily agricultural until 1873, when the B&;O Railroad completed the Metropolitan Branch across Montgomery County. A community arose where the new railroad line intersected the old Rockville -to- Bladensburg road. This early settlement

1400-467: Was 4,610.4 inhabitants per square mile (1,780.1/km ). There were 902 housing units at an average density of 1,879.2 per square mile (725.6/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 82.0% White , 6.1% African American , 0.1% Native American , 5.7% Asian , 0.1% Pacific Islander , 2.8% from other races , and 3.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.4% of the population. There were 870 households, of which 33.7% had children under

1440-399: Was also released as a Book-of-the-Month Club edition. Vanity Fair has since said of the essay, "It would become not only one of the most famous essays ever composed about the island of Manhattan but perhaps the finest. Over the years its plaintive language has been categorized as both poem and hymn." After 9/11, Vanity Fair also published the essay in book form in 2002 as a tribute. By 1961

1480-403: Was first known as "Knowles Station". In the early 1890s, Washington developer Brainard Warner began purchasing land parcels to build a planned Victorian community, complete with church, library, and local newspaper. Fascinated by a recent trip to London , Warner named his development "Kensington Park", the tenth and largest subdivision in the area. Upon incorporation in 1894, Warner convinced

1520-535: Was held on June 3, 2019 The 2018 Kensington Town Election was held on June 4, 2018 The 2017 Kensington Town Election was held on June 5, 2017 The 2016 Kensington Town Election was held on June 6, 2016 The 2015 Kensington Town Election was held on June 1, 2015 The town of Kensington is served by the Montgomery County Public Schools system: Montgomery County Public Schools serving Greater Kensington include: Kensington

1560-690: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Kensington Historic District in 1980. In the early 21st century, the town gained national attention three times in 10 months for events within a quarter-mile radius. In December 2001, the town responded to complaints from anonymous citizens by banning Santa Claus from the annual holiday parade. Protesters arrived at the parade en masse, including dozens of Santas riding everything from motorcycles to fire trucks. Eight months later, an Amtrak train derailed near

1600-570: Was replaced by a restaurant named 2100 Prime, which also soon closed. The space served as a breakfast room called The Capitol Room until the hotel's permanent closure in 2021. Famous guests of the hotel included Jackie Kennedy , President Jimmy Carter , Margaret Thatcher , President Bill Clinton , Vernon Jordan , Lady Victoria Rothschild , Betsy Bloomingdale , Estée Lauder , William F. Buckley , Frank Sinatra , Liza Minnelli , Jack Nicholson , Steve Martin , Julie Andrews , Lynn Redgrave , Samuel L. Jackson , and Angela Bassett . The AAA gave

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