DCPL Digital “Architectural Ghost Tour” features Lost Foggy Bottom

The DC Preservation League has posted a “Digital Tour: Gone, But Not Forgotten (Architectural Ghost Tour).” This tour includes 19 historic sites in D.C. that had historical and/or architectural significance but were still demolished.  Some of these lost places went down with a fight, but all these losses reflect a constantly changing city. The tour starts in Georgetown with Alexander Ray’s flour warehouse (1855-1974) (Ray also owned the F Street House in Foggy Bottom). It then moves through Foggy Bottom (or Foggy Bottom adjacent) sites Western Market (1872-1966), the Six Buildings (1795-1985) and the Seven Buildings (1796-1960) on Pennsylvania Avenue, the 19^th Street Baptist Church (1871-1976), and the Washington Loan and Trust Company, 17th and G Streets Branch (1924-1974). Enjoy the tour of important buildings we have lost.

 The Six Buildings – among the first buildings built in the new capital city, they were started by James Greenleaf and completed by Isaac Pollock. Buildings provided homes for notable figures including General Sam Houston of Texas and housed the Departments of State and Navy from 1795 to 1980 (Library of Congress, 1918-1920).