By Frank Leone Foggy Bottom is known for its Victorian brick rowhouses, some with faux Federalist features. But Steve Knight, president of The Art Deco Society of Washington ,  recently led a tour highlighting Art Deco (and Art Deco-adjacent) buildings in Foggy Bottom. The tour started at the one of the D.C.’s most beautiful buildings, the National Academy of Sciences , whose “Alexandrian” design fused Greek, Byzantine, Egyptian, and Art Deco elements. Many of the buildings o

By Frank Leone Foggy Bottom boasts the smallest firehouse in Washington, D.C. and it has had to fight to keep its treasured landmark. Engine Company No. 23 sits in the heart of George Washington University (2119 G Street). Built in 1910, the building is a modest, two-story red brick firehouse featuring an Arts and Crafts interpretation of the Italian Renaissance Revival style. It was intended to foster civic pride as well as protect the community. The firehouse is a contribut

From 2004 through at least 2006, the Foggy Bottom Association’s Foggy Bottom News  was published in the now-defunct Georgetown Current . George Washington University’s Gelman Library Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) has generously digitized those two years and you can access them here , as well as the Foggy Bottom News  back to 1958 here . Even better, Dalton Alves of SCRC did some “web archaeology” and uncovered PDF editions of the Foggy Bottom News from 2008 to 20

By Frank Leone During the Civil War, Foggy Bottom was home to Camp Fry and the Veterans Reserve (Invalid) Corps troops that helped save Washington from confederate attack. Foggy Bottom also housed Union army supply depots, soldiers’ barracks, military bands, hospitals, camp grounds, a huge horse stable, a port on the Potomac, a stately home requisitioned for the Army (the F Street House ), D.C.’s first office building which housed some of the War Department (the Winder Buildi