Exhibit 10.19


                    FIRST AMENDMENT TO CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

                  FIRST AMENDMENT TO CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENT dated as of May
8,1998 among HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation ("HMC"), HOST
MARRIOTT, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership ("Operating Partnership"), HTKG
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, a California limited partnership ("HTKG"), BRE/BURTON
WAY L.L.C., a Delaware limited partnership ("Burton Way"), and the other
Contributors (as defined below).

                                   Background
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                  HMC, Operating Partnership, HTKG, Burton Way, and the other
contributors named therein (HTKG, Burton Way and such other contributors,
collectively, the "Contributors") are parties to that certain Contribution
Agreement dated as of April 16, 1998 (the "Contribution Agreement"). All
capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings ascribed to such terms in the Contribution Agreement.

                  HMC, Operating Partnership, HTKG, Burton Way and the other
Contributors have agreed to amend the terms of the Contribution Agreement as
provided herein.

                                    Agreement
                                    ---------

                  1.  Section 1.4 of the Contribution Agreement is hereby
amended by deleting the date "May 11, 1998" wherever it appears therein, and
substituting the date "May 18,1998" therefor.

                  2.  The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that contribution
of the Beverly Hills Loan has been authorized by all of the members of
BRE/Burton Way L.L.C. (the Contributor of the Beverly Hills Loan), and that the
Beverly Hills Loan will not be excluded from the transactions contemplated by
the Contribution Agreement under Section 7.3(b) thereof.

                  3.  The Contribution Agreement, as amended hereby, is and
shall remain in full force and effect and is ratified and confirmed.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this
First Amendment as of the date written above.


                                  HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION

                                  By:    /s/ CHRISTOPHER J. NASSETTA
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                                         Name: Christopher J. Nassetta
                                         Title: Executive Vice President
                                                and Chief Operating Officer

 
                                 HOST MARRIOTT, L.P.

                                 By:    HMC Real Estate Corporation, its
                                        general partner

                                        By:   /s/ CHRISTOPHER J. NASSETTA
                                              -------------------------------
                                              Name: Christopher J. Nassetta
                                              Title: Vice President

                                 HTKG DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

                                 By:    BRE/Burlingame II, L.L.C.

                                        By:   /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                              -------------------------------
                                              Jonathan Gray
                                              Vice President

                                 BRE/BURTON WAY L.L.C.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/SWISS L.L.C.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/LAFAYETTE INC.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/SWISS MANAGEMENT L.L.C.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President


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                                 BRE/HT L.L.C.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/CAMBRIDGE L.L.C.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/RESTON L.L.C.

                                  By:   /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/GRAND L.L.C.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/AMELIA PARTNERS L.P.

                                 By:    BRE/Amelia L.L.C., general partner

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/AMELIA L.L.C.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 OLS HOTEL PARTNERS L.P.

                                 By:    BRE/Logan Hotel Space Inc.

                                        By:   /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                              -------------------------
                                              Jonathan Gray
                                              Vice President


                                 RTZ MANAGEMENT CORP.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President

                                 BRE/RITZ BOSTON, L.L.C.

                                 By:    /s/ JONATHAN GRAY
                                        -------------------------------
                                        Jonathan Gray
                                        Vice President


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