By Frank Leone We have the opportunity to reclaim the area west of the Foggy Bottom Historic District to the Potomac River, that “dense...

by Frank Leone The area stretching from the Foggy Bottom Historic District west to the Potomac River is a maze of expressways, ramps,...

By Frank Leone The excellent D.C Historic Preservation Office has been issuing Heritage Guides of Washington’s eight wards over the past...

By Frank Leone The GW Deli is a well-known cultural landmark, but right next door is an unrecognized historic landmark – the John J....

By Denise Vogt The 1950 census is available for everyone to view on a free, dedicated website from the National Archives:...

By Frank Leone Join us for free in-person and/or zoom presentations of the Foggy Bottom Historic District walking tours featuring...

By Frank Leone George Washington isn’t the only U.S. Revolutionary War hero recognized in the Foggy Bottom area. Spanish General and...

By Frank Leone The impressive Second Empire style brick house with a mansard roof at 20th and G Streets is the former home of...

By Frank Leone The George Washington University’s most significant architectural landmark is the limestone-clad cube of Lisner Auditorium...

GWU’s Staughton Hall – 1916-2022 Last Fall, we posted a Funkstown article on GWU’s Staughton Hall – the building, named for the first...

By Frank Leone June 17, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nixon campaign break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices at...

By Frank Leone The Federal Triangle gets all the attention. That sliver of federal buildings (15th to 6th Streets, where Constitution...

By Frank Leone One of the oldest buildings in the Foggy Bottom Historic District is a distinctive Italian Villa style house, which is...

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...

By Frank Leone Foggy Bottom is justifiably proud of Snows Court and Hughes Mews and their 1880s-era brick alley houses. See...

By Frank Leone The Foggy Bottom African American community was anchored in its churches. From about 1910-1960, such churches offered not...

By Frank Leone The Foggy Bottom area, especially the Historic District, is known for the Irish immigrant workers who settled there during...

By Frank Leone Martha Bailey Briggs (1838-1889) was an African American educator who served D.C. as principal of the Miner Normal School...

Ethan Benn, a GWU Journalism major, has prepared a 2 1/2 minute video on the Foggy Bottom History Project. The video uses comments...

Colbert King, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, grew up in Foggy Bottom in the 1940s and 1950s, when the area was...