By Frank Leone One of our favorite activities at the FBA History Project is helping George Washington University students discover and...

By Frank Leone HistoryMakers  Digital Archive is the nation's largest African American video oral history collection and is now available...

The DC Office of Planning recently launched a digital tour of Washington, DC Black History Sites . The tour includes nearly 300 places...

By Frank Leone Stevens School (1050 21st Street, N.W.), built in 1868, is one of the city's oldest schools. Named for Pennsylvania...

By Frank Leone The early 1870s were a booming time in Washington. The Civil War caused a significant increase in population and housing...

Too many historic district property owners carry out substantial alteration, demolition, or new construction in violation of their...

Foggy Bottom Association History Project Co-Chairs recently presented a webinar  for the DC Preservation League’s neighborhood history...

By Denise Vogt & Frank Leone, Co-Chairs The FBA History Project  begins its fifth year of researching and sharing Foggy Bottom...

Best wishes for a new year of rediscovering Foggy Bottom and our city's past. FBA History Project Co-Chairs, Denise Vogt and Frank Leone,...

By Frank Leone 200 years ago, America welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette, “the Lancelot of the revolutionary set,” for a triumphant return...

General Lafayette has his Square in front of the White House, and his mentor, General Washington, has his Circle in Foggy Bottom/West End...

On December 11, 2024, Foggy Bottom Association History Project Co-Chairs presented a webinar for the DC Preservation League’s...

By Denise Vogt Thanks to the GWU Library Special Collections, you can now easily browse the back issues of the Foggy Bottom News  on-line...

By Frank Leone The DACOR Bacon House (1801 F St., two blocks from the White House) is one of Foggy Bottom’s oldest and most stately...

By Frank Leone Foggy Bottom Underground Railroad conductor Rev. Leonard Andrew Grimes – who helped 400 enslaved people seeking freedom –...

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...