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...

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...

By Frank Leone   We have reported on the ongoing efforts to connect the Kennedy Center to the city and improve the highway wasteland in...

By Frank Leone In Foggy Bottom’s marshes, the “incessant croaking of frogs at night furnished material for ghost stories.”  One such...

By Denise Vogt Denise Vogt and Frank Leone recently welcomed Adrian Bloom , British author, speaker, horticultural specialist and owner...

FBA History Project associate, Bellini the Beagle, recently unearthed a delicate 3-inch tall glass (patent medicine?) bottle in the...

By Frank Leone One of Foggy Bottom’s earliest industries (1807-1846) was a glass-making factory located at 22nd Street and Water Street...

Saturday September 14 was a beautiful day for our 4th annual Foggy Bottom Historic District in-person walking tour. Registration for the...

By: Frank Leone Nestled between the Whitehurst Freeway and the Rock Creek Parkway are unusual stone and brick structures – these are the...

By Frank Leone and Denise Vogt Shortly after its founding in 1955, the Foggy Bottom Restoration Association  (now the Foggy Bottom...

By Frank Leone This Fall, the Foggy Bottom Association History Project  will offer an unprecedented number of live events. We’ll have...

By Frank Leone On June 9, 2024, Foggy Bottom’s St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (728 23rd St.) celebrated its 157th anniversary with D.C....

The Kennedy Center recently displayed banners with a land acknowledgement by Mahogany L. Browne, a Kennedy Center’s Next 50 fellow,...

By Frank Leone One of the West End’s most notable historic rowhouses recently underwent a renovation, which has resulted in 15 modern...

George Washington University President Ellen M. Granberg and Ms. Sonya Rankin invited FBA members and other neighbors to a reception at...

By Frank Leone The best-known lost brewery in D.C. was Foggy Bottom’s Christian Heurich Brewing Company, located at what is now the...

By Frank Leone The George Washington University Corcoran School of the Arts & Design students are displaying 80 thesis projects – photos,...

The West End Library will be presenting a House History Workshop this Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 6 pm - Foggy Bottom Association History...

By Frank Leone April 29, 2024 marks the 125 anniversary of the birth – in the West End – of legendary jazz pianist, composer, and...

By Frank Leone When Confederate General Jubal Early threatened to take Washington in July 1864, “invalid and convalescent” soldiers from...