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...

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...

The two moons of Mars were discovered by astronomer Asaph Hall, looking through the then largest refracting telescope in the world, on...

Since its founding in January 2021, the Foggy Bottom Association’s History Project has made major progress: First, we’ve added our...

In 1996, archeological investigations conducted in connection with the renovation of the Whitehurst Freeway uncovered a remarkable burial...

The Foggy Bottom Association was delighted to have Tim Dennee of the DC Historic Preservation Office join our Tuesday, November 30th...

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...

By Frank Leone, Nov. 4, 2021 Since its founding as the Foggy Bottom Restoration Association in 1955, the FBA has fought to preserve the...

Two of Foggy Bottom’s earliest and most haunted sites are found in the far south-east corner of the neighborhood. The Octagon (18th and...