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    Funkstown: GWU’s Lisner Auditorium – Distinctive Design, Desegregation, and Dylan
    • 2 days ago
    Blog

    Funkstown: GWU’s Lisner Auditorium – Distinctive Design, Desegregation, and Dylan

    By Frank Leone The George Washington University’s most significant architectural landmark is the limestone-clad cube of Lisner Auditorium...
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    FB Historic Preservation Updates:  GWU's Staughton Hall Gone and a New House for Snows Court
    • Jun 14
    Blog

    FB Historic Preservation Updates: GWU's Staughton Hall Gone and a New House for Snows Court

    GWU’s Staughton Hall – 1916-2022 Last Fall, we posted a Funkstown article on GWU’s Staughton Hall – the building, named for the first...
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    Funkstown: The Watergate Break-In at 50
    • Jun 14
    Blog

    Funkstown: The Watergate Break-In at 50

    By Frank Leone June 17, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nixon campaign break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices at...
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    Funkstown: Foggy Bottom’s Monumental Northwest Rectangle
    • May 28
    History

    Funkstown: Foggy Bottom’s Monumental Northwest Rectangle

    By Frank Leone The Federal Triangle gets all the attention. That sliver of federal buildings (15th to 6th Streets, where Constitution...
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    Funkstown – Asian Americans in Foggy Bottom – The Manila House
    • May 17
    Blog

    Funkstown – Asian Americans in Foggy Bottom – The Manila House

    By Frank Leone One of the oldest buildings in the Foggy Bottom Historic District is a distinctive Italian Villa style house, which is...
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    Funkstown: Foggy Bottom’s  “Avenue of the Americas”
    • May 1
    Blog

    Funkstown: Foggy Bottom’s “Avenue of the Americas”

    By Frank Leone When Major Pierre L’Enfant laid out the new City of Washington, he called this street Virginia Avenue NW. But it now...
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    Funkstown – Capitol Hill Alleys
    • Apr 19
    Blog

    Funkstown – Capitol Hill Alleys

    By Frank Leone Foggy Bottom is justifiably proud of Snows Court and Hughes Mews and their 1880s-era brick alley houses. See...
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    Funkstown – Foggy Bottom’s Lost African American Churches:  Liberty Baptist
    • Apr 5
    Blog

    Funkstown – Foggy Bottom’s Lost African American Churches: Liberty Baptist

    By Frank Leone The Foggy Bottom African American community was anchored in its churches. From about 1910-1960, such churches offered not...
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    Funkstown:  Pete the Goat and Irish Foggy Bottom
    • Mar 18
    Blog

    Funkstown: Pete the Goat and Irish Foggy Bottom

    By Frank Leone The Foggy Bottom area, especially the Historic District, is known for the Irish immigrant workers who settled there during...
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    Funkstown: Martha B.  Briggs and her Lost Schools
    • Mar 7
    Blog

    Funkstown: Martha B. Briggs and her Lost Schools

    By Frank Leone Martha Bailey Briggs (1838-1889) was an African American educator who served D.C. as principal of the Miner Normal School...
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    GWU Student Creates FBA History Project Video
    • Mar 4
    Blog

    GWU Student Creates FBA History Project Video

    Ethan Benn, a GWU Journalism major, has prepared a 2 1/2 minute video on the Foggy Bottom History Project. The video uses comments...
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    Funkstown – Colbert King Remembers Foggy Bottom
    • Feb 22
    Blog

    Funkstown – Colbert King Remembers Foggy Bottom

    Colbert King, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, grew up in Foggy Bottom in the 1940s and 1950s, when the area was...
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    Funkstown: What Do the Underground Railroad and the GWU President’s House Have in Common?
    • Feb 5
    Blog

    Funkstown: What Do the Underground Railroad and the GWU President’s House Have in Common?

    By Frank Leone On the night of April 15, 1848, 13-year old Emily Edmondson left Foggy Bottom to join her sister and four brothers who...
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    Funkstown: Foggy Bottom Discovers the  Moons of Mars
    • Jan 24
    Blog

    Funkstown: Foggy Bottom Discovers the Moons of Mars

    The two moons of Mars were discovered by astronomer Asaph Hall, looking through the then largest refracting telescope in the world, on...
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    Funkstown: The FBA History Project in 2021 and Beyond
    • Jan 7
    Blog

    Funkstown: The FBA History Project in 2021 and Beyond

    Since its founding in January 2021, the Foggy Bottom Association’s History Project has made major progress: First, we’ve added our...
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    Funkstown No 12 - Original Inhabitants – DC’s Native Americans in Foggy Bottom
    • Dec 5, 2021
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    Funkstown No 12 - Original Inhabitants – DC’s Native Americans in Foggy Bottom

    In 1996, archeological investigations conducted in connection with the renovation of the Whitehurst Freeway uncovered a remarkable burial...
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    Historic Preservation Officer presents Foggy Bottom history and historic district info - Video
    • Nov 29, 2021
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    Historic Preservation Officer presents Foggy Bottom history and historic district info - Video

    The Foggy Bottom Association was delighted to have Tim Dennee of the DC Historic Preservation Office join our Tuesday, November 30th...
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    Funkstown No 11. Next on GWU’s “Raze Low” List: Staughton Hall
    • Nov 26, 2021
    History

    Funkstown No 11. Next on GWU’s “Raze Low” List: Staughton Hall

    Have you noticed Staughton Hall? It’s that three story, human-scale, white brick building at 707 22nd St. – next door to the back of...
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    The Waggaman House - Lost
    • Nov 25, 2021
    History

    The Waggaman House - Lost

    Since its founding as the Foggy Bottom Restoration Association in 1955, the FBA has fought to preserve the historic character of the...
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    Funkstown No 10. Haunted Foggy Bottom
    • Nov 23, 2021
    History

    Funkstown No 10. Haunted Foggy Bottom

    Two of Foggy Bottom’s earliest and most haunted sites are found in the far south-east corner of the neighborhood. The Octagon (18th and...
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