Funkstown: Find Foggy Bottom on this Extraordinary 1802 Embroidered and Painted Map
By: Frank Leone and Denise Vogt City of Washington maps from the early 1800s do not identify Foggy Bottom by name, but you can still see...
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- Jan 18
Funkstown – Urban Change in the 1950s and the Birth of the Foggy Bottom Association
By Frank Leone The 1950s transformed Foggy Bottom through renovation of historic buildings, new apartment construction, urban renewal...
- Dec 20, 2022
Funkstown – The Three St. Mary’s Courts
By Frank Leone St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is the Renwick-designed, Tiffany-windowed gem of Foggy Bottom. The historic church (728 23rd...
- Dec 4, 2022
Reclaiming the Foggy Bottom Waterfront
By Frank Leone We have the opportunity to reclaim the area west of the Foggy Bottom Historic District to the Potomac River, that “dense...
- Dec 4, 2022
FUNKSTOWN – The Highway that Ate Foggy Bottom
by Frank Leone The area stretching from the Foggy Bottom Historic District west to the Potomac River is a maze of expressways, ramps,...
- Nov 21, 2022
Funkstown – Ward 2 Heritage Guide – including Foggy Bottom – Published!
By Frank Leone The excellent D.C Historic Preservation Office has been issuing Heritage Guides of Washington’s eight wards over the past...
- Nov 11, 2022
Funkstown – Foggy Bottom’s John J. Earley – The Man Who Made Concrete Beautiful
By Frank Leone The GW Deli is a well-known cultural landmark, but right next door is an unrecognized historic landmark – the John J....
- Oct 14, 2022
Who’s Been Sleeping in Your House? (Researching House Histories)
By Denise Vogt The 1950 census is available for everyone to view on a free, dedicated website from the National Archives:...
- Oct 14, 2022
Funkstown: You’re Invited! Foggy Bottom Historic District Walking Tour Presentations
By Frank Leone Join us for free in-person and/or zoom presentations of the Foggy Bottom Historic District walking tours featuring...
- Sep 24, 2022
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...
- Sep 12, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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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