Funkstown Blog

Thanks to a generous grant from the Foggy Bottom Association Defense and Improvement Corporation, the FBA is now sponsoring up to three...

At the Martin Luther King Public Library . The DC History Conference is now over 50 years old and better than ever! Register now for the...

By Frank Leone At the southern edge of Foggy Bottom (2101 Constitution Avenue) stands the semi-classical National Academy of Sciences...

Join the new Watergate Museum (est. 2024) for “The Stories behind the Watergate Complex - a conversation with Joseph Rodota and Scott...

You can read about notable Foggy Bottom women in some of our prior Funkstown  posts – Foggy Bottom Notable Women - Architect Rodeck and...

By Frank Leone Last fall, the FBA History Project was honored to be included in a program on neighborhood history at the DACOR Bacon...

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...

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...

This year was the 50th Anniversary of the DC History Conference, held April 4-6 at Martin Luther King Library. Denise Vogt and Frank...

First, a final reminder to join the FBA History Project at the free DC History Conference, April 4-6 at Martin Luther King Library. ...

By Frank Leone The Christian Heurich Brewing Company operated D.C.’s largest brewery near the site of what is now the Kennedy Center from...

By Frank Leone Foggy Bottom has been home to many notable women, including two important designers who lived in the neighborhood for...

Foggy Bottom was home to many Irish American immigrants in the period between the Civil War and the 1920s, as described in an earlier...

At the Martin Luther King Public Library. The DC History Conference is celebrating its 50th Anniversary! Register now for the FREE...

In time for spring, Smithsonian Books just issued its revised and expanded Washington on Foot, an easy to carry paperback containing 24...

By Frank Leone Foggy Bottom is fortunate to have the Kennedy Center, but its location here was controversial and access challenges...

The GW Hatchet video team - Sophia Escobar, Eduardo Gonzalez del Valle, and Ava Thompson - recently interviewed FBA History Project...