Downtown / Inlet & Boardwalk · 10th St
George Washington Hotel Site
Depression-defying 1931 hotel — the town's tallest building for four decades.
- Historical
Lost OC — the building is gone
Where it stood
- It stood at
- 10th St & Boardwalk, Ocean City
- From your base
- Sorts every list here by walk time.
The take
Opened in June 1931, in the teeth of the Depression, and stood as the tallest building in Ocean City until the High Point tower went up in 1971. Three different campaign research runs (1931, 1941, 1971) reached for it independently — a building that anchored the skyline for sixty seasons.
Sources
- Facts — the guide’s own research notes — no published source, August 2026 — not independently verified
- coords — derived from the island street grid, August 2026 — not independently verified
Similar nearby
All tagged Landmark.
The neighborhood
The 13 things this place connects to in the guide's map of the town — one step out, and nothing beyond it.
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See George Washington Hotel Site on the wiki, with every connection listed