Watergate complex

Watergate
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Aerial view of the Watergate complex in January 2006
Location	2650 Virginia Ave. NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Coordinates	38°53′56″N 77°03′15″W / 38.89889°N 77.05417°W / 38.89889; -77.05417
Area	Foggy Bottom
Built	1963–1971
Architect	Luigi Moretti, consulting architect; Milton Fischer, associate architect; Boris Timchenko, landscape architect
Architectural style	Modern Monument
NRHP reference No.	05000540[1]
Added to NRHP	October 12, 2005

The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. The complex includes a development of cooperative apartment residences. It also includes a hotel and an office building, which was the location of the Watergate burglary on June 17, 1972, which led to the resignation of U.S. president Richard Nixon two years later, on August 8, 1974 and serves as the basis for the complex's infamy. The complex covers a total of 10 acres (4 ha) just north of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.