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...
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- 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...
- Mar 7, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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 - 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...
- Nov 25, 2021
The Waggaman House - Lost
By Frank Leone, Nov. 4, 2021 Since its founding as the Foggy Bottom Restoration Association in 1955, the FBA has fought to preserve the...
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