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Article: Best Dressed Guest Rooms
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 1, 1989
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"Washington has so many darn visitors," says Bruce Schafer, a
partner in Alexandria's Market Square, a shop that sells fabric,
furniture and accessories. "We never seem to go anywhere. They all
want to come here!"
George Washington slept here. (He was a frequent guest at his
step-granddaughter Martha Custis Peter's home on K Street.) And so
have countless other visitors, travelers and vacationers who are
lucky enough to avoid hotels by bunking in with area residents. The
guest rooms of the nation's capital sustain heavy use, especially
during school vacations, inaugurations, cherry blossom festivals and