Funkstown: Foggy Bottom honors US Revolutionary War Hero Gálvez of Spain
By Frank Leone George Washington isn’t the only U.S. Revolutionary War hero recognized in the Foggy Bottom area. Spanish General and...
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- Sep 12
Funkstown: The Underwood House - A Couple Who Died on the Titanic, an Anti-Klan Alabama Senator, an
By Frank Leone The impressive Second Empire style brick house with a mansard roof at 20th and G Streets is the former home of...
- Jun 25
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...
- Jun 14
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...
- Jun 14
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...
- May 28
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...
- May 17
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...
- May 1
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...
- Apr 19
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...
- Apr 5
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...
- Mar 18
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...
- Mar 7
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...
- Mar 4
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...
- Feb 22
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...
- Feb 5
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...
- Jan 24
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...
- Jan 7
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...
- Dec 5, 2021
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...
- Nov 29, 2021
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...
- Nov 26, 2021
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...
