This is a detail of the Hay-Adams Hotel taken Bruce White for the White House Historical Association on May 17, 2014. The flags on the building are represent the United States, Maryland, and Washington D.C. The Hay-Adams hotel was built in the 1927 by Harry Wardman. The hotel fashioned in the Italian-Renaissance style was named after John Hay, personal secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and Henry Adams, a Harvard professor, a historian, and a descendant of presidents John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams. Before the hotel was built the Hay and Adams houses existed on the same site.