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Snows Court, November, 1935 (National Archives) – showing passageway to I St, (with Washington Gas Light gas holder tanks looming in the background). On Christmas Eve 1938, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt brought gifts and good wishes to “the poverty and gloom of Snows Court, a community of alley dwellers … a tucked-away, often forgotten slum.” Snows Court today is a thriving and tight-knit community within the block bounded by I, K, 24thand 25th Streets. Hughes Court (now Hughe

Red Lion Row (2014) https://library.whitehousehistory.org Foggy Bottom residents now shop for food at Whole Foods or Trader Joes, but...

During the 1950s and 1960s, the expansion of The George Washington University, the construction of highways (including an I-66...

The George Washington University and Foggy Bottom The George Washington University first arrived in the Foggy Bottom/Old West End in 1912...

Prior to the Civil War, Foggy Bottom, like much of what is now Washington DC, was sparsely occupied. The area was originally peopled by...

Foggy Bottom is a charming and wonderful community in which to live, but its ever present history makes it unique, even in Washington. “Foggy Bottom” lacks legal boundaries, but generally is situated between the White House and Rock Creek Park and between the Potomac and Pennsylvania Avenue. The area was occupied by Native Americans 1,500 years ago, then Maryland planters. German immigrant Jacob Funk sought to build a new town (Hamburgh or Funkstown (hence the name of this co