The Watergate complex in Washington was designed by Luigi Moretti as chief architect, with Milton Fischer as associate and Boris Timchenko for the landscape. The Rome-based Società Generale Immobiliare was the client. The infobox gives 1963 to 1971, and the text agrees, with work beginning in August 1963 and the fifth building finished in January 1971. The text gives two opening years for Watergate East, 1965 and 1966.
The article calls the style Modern Monument, with a curvilinear design. It has a metal and concrete superstructure and textured concrete balconies. The site covers 10 acres, and the planned 16-story towers were reduced to 14 stories.
The 1972 Watergate burglary took place in the office building. The complex was listed on the National Register in 2005, and the hotel closed in 2007 and reopened in 2016. It holds three cooperative apartment buildings, a hotel and office buildings. The article gives no hours.
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