Watergate complex to Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. The name "Watergate" and the suffix "-gate" have since become synonymous with political scandals in the United States and elsewhere. The Watergate superblock is bounded on the north by Virginia Avenue, on the east by New Hampshire Avenue, on the south by F Street, and on the west by the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. It is in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood overlooking the Potomac River, next to the Kennedy Center and the embassy of Saudi Arabia. The nearest Metro station, 0.4 miles (650 m) distant, is Foggy Bottom-GWU. For more than a
Tilden Gardens Tilden Gardens Tilden Gardens is an apartment complex which fills the (roughly triangular) block between Connecticut Avenue, Tilden Street and Sedgwick Street in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, DC. As physical structures the complex includes six buildings. All six center on a large (three-acre) multilevel garden which has been described as the best of its kind in Washington, DC. Until the Watergate was built in the 1960s Tilden Gardens was the largest luxury apartment complex in the city. Originally planned in 1927, as cooperatives (co-ops), most of the buildings were completed only after the Depression had set in and