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...

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....