Statesman Hotel

Statesman Hotel is a twelve-story building in the ruins of Washington, D.C. To access the majority of the building, you must go through Our Lady of Hope Hospital and cross the fallen radio mast. The building is inhabited by Super Mutants and Centaurs, but is a good source of ammunition and explosives.

The Reilly's Rangers squad (except Reilly) can be found stranded on the rooftop fighting off Super Mutants.

Background
Although little or no information is given about the Statesman Hotel, it seems in the pre-war days it used to give guests a luxurious feel and as for the men a quick trip to the bar on the top floor of the hotel. This hotel was perhaps moddled after a real world motel mentioned below. For this reason, it is possible that the IX Delta rocket was intentionally aimed at the hotel, considering that the white house, one likely place the president may have been at the time was destroyed by (what must have been) a small bunker buster with precise laser guidence or perhaps an explosive planted beneath the whitehouse by the chinese who had broken into the presidental metro. While there is little explanation as to this being the case, there is also little explanation as to how it was, days before a nuclear war, and with the chinese being rounded up in places like turtledove, broken into, (the president's personal emergency exit) spray painted it and then some how went unaprehended when the whole place was under the capitol building, the white house and led to what was fort adams airbase, presumably for congress and the presidents escape to what was supposed to be a space launch pad, then later turned to enclave oil platform. The statesman hotel and the hospital both would have made ideal targets to the chinese in the area. The hospital being a better target then the motel it's self. It leads one to wonder what the building it crushed once was? and even more so, how it was the bomb landed without detonating. While it clearly carried a nuclear warhead, it was undetonated. There is no known cause, but my personal guess is only that either other nuclear explosions knocked it off course, or more likely that when and if a high altitude detonation went off it caused the GPS guidance system to fail, and perhaps either it autoshut down as the one on fort constantine does, or the electronic systems seized and the missile fell out of the sky. The amounts of radiation leaking would be considerable understanding that the rocket housed a miniature nuclear powerplant, and atop of that it had an intact (now probably fractured or fragmented) nuclear warhead which may also by that time be leaking radiation. It was most likely post war considering there seem to be very little emergency or cleanup efforts around the downed warhead

Notable Loot
Because the hotel can be quite confusing, the loot is listed from the bottom, up.

Bottom floor (accessible from the street)

 * Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor in the north-eastern room on the second floor, on a desk, next to a phone and 2 coffee mugs.

Mid Level

 * Theo's Ammo Box, in the first (southwest) stairwell you reach upon entering the Statesman from the fallen tower bridge. Part of the Reilly's Rangers quest.
 * A Note from Little Moonbeam's Father -- one way to get Sydney's 10mm "Ultra" SMG from Sydney after completing Stealing Independence. The note is under a skeleton lying on a white twin bed. The bed, opposite a queen-size bed, is in a suite on the 3rd floor (the second new floor you reach after finding Theo), near the center of the map, one section south of the elevator to the Hotel Restaurant.
 * Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual on the top floor of the middle level (a floor higher than the door to the restaurant). It's in a small room off the hallway that leads to the stairs to the upper level. As you are headed to the stairs the room is on the right (interior side). The room will have plungers on the floor in the corner and a bookshelf in front with a row of desk lamps. In the bookshelf, lower left corner next to some Abraxo Cleaner boxes. Not to be confused with the locked janitor closet one floor below.

Restaurant

 * A Grognak the Barbarian is on a shelf in the Alfresco Lounge bar area at the middle of main room. Next to a Sawed-Off Shotgun, ammo and ammo boxes.
 * A Nuka-Cola Quantum is on a shelf in the bar area. Behind the counter. Near the sawed-off shotgun mentioned above.
 * If you don't have one and need one for fixing the elevator, the building's sole Fission Battery is located on a Maintenance Protectron in a closet behind the southwest set of stairs in the main Alfresco Lounge bar.

Roof

 * Sheet Music Book near the music stands and chairs. It is used for helping out Agatha after you receive the Soil Stradivarius during Agatha's Song

Related quests

 * Reilly's Rangers

Behind the Scenes
This is a re-creation of the Willard Hotel in D.C. Every president since 1804 has spent time in the Willard Hotel and it is said that the lobby of the hotel is where the term "lobbying" originated.

Behind the scenes

 * On the second floor of the hotel, there is a room labeled "217" and has blood and scratches on it, and is also barricaded off. This is a reference to Stephen King's novel "The Shining".


 * In one of the rooms, there is a skeleton in a bathtub that is posed in striking resemblance to David's depiction of Marat, a famous painting of the death of a French journalist.


 * The Statesman Hotel could be a refrence to the Statesman Motel in VA, though not in DC it is very close to (possibly within) the game map.