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Mar 8
First Watergate Museum Event! – March 26th at 6:00 pm
Join the new Watergate Museum (est. 2024) for “The Stories behind the Watergate Complex - a conversation with Joseph Rodota and Scott...
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Mar 8
Happy Women’s History Month!
You can read about notable Foggy Bottom women in some of our prior Funkstown posts – Foggy Bottom Notable Women - Architect Rodeck and...
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Mar 8
Funkstown: F Street – The President’s Neighborhood in Foggy Bottom
By Frank Leone Last fall, the FBA History Project was honored to be included in a program on neighborhood history at the DACOR Bacon...
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Feb 26
Funkstown - GWU Student Reveals University’s Impact on Foggy Bottom
By Frank Leone One of our favorite activities at the FBA History Project is helping George Washington University students discover and...
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Feb 26
Black History Month - DC Public Library HistoryMakers Videos include Foggy Bottom
By Frank Leone HistoryMakers Digital Archive is the nation's largest African American video oral history collection and is now available...
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Feb 8
DC Black History Sites include Foggy Bottom/West End
The DC Office of Planning recently launched a digital tour of Washington, DC Black History Sites . The tour includes nearly 300 places...
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Feb 8
Funkstown – Since 1868, West End’s Historic Thaddeus Stevens School
By Frank Leone Stevens School (1050 21st Street, N.W.), built in 1868, is one of the city's oldest schools. Named for Pennsylvania...
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Jan 25
Funkstown – Boss Shepherd Builds in Foggy Bottom
By Frank Leone The early 1870s were a booming time in Washington. The Civil War caused a significant increase in population and housing...
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Jan 25
DC Increases Fines for Historic District Home Destruction
Too many historic district property owners carry out substantial alteration, demolition, or new construction in violation of their...
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Jan 18
FBA History Project Webinar on DCPL YouTube
Foggy Bottom Association History Project Co-Chairs recently presented a webinar for the DC Preservation League’s neighborhood history...
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Jan 18
Learning from History - FBA History Project Report
By Denise Vogt & Frank Leone, Co-Chairs The FBA History Project begins its fifth year of researching and sharing Foggy Bottom...
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Dec 24, 2024
Happy Holidays from Funkstown!
Best wishes for a new year of rediscovering Foggy Bottom and our city's past. FBA History Project Co-Chairs, Denise Vogt and Frank Leone,...
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Dec 14, 2024
Funkstown – Lafayette in Foggy Bottom
By Frank Leone 200 years ago, America welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette, “the Lancelot of the revolutionary set,” for a triumphant return...
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Dec 14, 2024
Washington Circle
General Lafayette has his Square in front of the White House, and his mentor, General Washington, has his Circle in Foggy Bottom/West End...
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Dec 14, 2024
FBA History Project Does DC Preservation League Webinar
On December 11, 2024, Foggy Bottom Association History Project Co-Chairs presented a webinar for the DC Preservation League’s...
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Nov 20, 2024
Foggy Bottom News - Twenty-Five Years Ago
By Denise Vogt Thanks to the GWU Library Special Collections, you can now easily browse the back issues of the Foggy Bottom News on-line...
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Nov 20, 2024
Funkstown – Visit Foggy Bottom’s Grand DACOR Bacon House!
By Frank Leone The DACOR Bacon House (1801 F St., two blocks from the White House) is one of Foggy Bottom’s oldest and most stately...
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Nov 4, 2024
Funkstown – Foggy Bottom’s Rev. Leonard Grimes in the Abolition Hall of Fame
By Frank Leone Foggy Bottom Underground Railroad conductor Rev. Leonard Andrew Grimes – who helped 400 enslaved people seeking freedom –...
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Nov 4, 2024
FBA History Project/GWU Museum Walking Tour a Success
By Frank Leone and Denise Vogt On October 19, 2024, we led a walking tour which began in the Foggy Bottom Historic District and ended at...
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Nov 4, 2024
Washington D.C. Votes for President
By Frank Leone If you haven’t yet, be sure to vote on or before Election Day, November 5th! Washington D.C. has a complicated...
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