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Foggy Bottom

Foggy Bottom got its evocative name from the industrial fumes that once rose from the gas works and breweries along the Potomac. Today it is home to the State Department, George Washington University, and the Kennedy Center, but these posts dig into the neighborhood’s earlier life as a working-class industrial district that bore almost no resemblance to its current form.

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Hotel Lombardy exterior at 2019 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Foggy Bottom, Washington DCHotel Lombardy: The 1929 Foggy Bottom Apartment That Became DC’s Old-World BoutiqueJul 11FBI Ten Most Wanted poster for William Bradford Bishop Jr., 2014The Bishop Family Murders: A Bethesda Home, a Foggy Bottom Memo, and a 50-Year ManhuntJul 9Braddock’s Rock: A Stone Steeped in History and ControversyJan 16, 2024

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Columbia HospitalA Look Back in Time – A Photo of Columbia Hospital from the Early 1920sAug 3, 2014Potomac Park ApartmentsA Look Back at 21st and C St. NW in 1924 (Mislabeled as 1916)Jul 31, 20141903 map of Foggy Bottom1903 Map of Foggy Bottom: The State Department SiteMay 28, 2014Explosion in Foggy Bottom: Was it a Meteor or a Bomb Outrage?Dec 24, 20131981 apartment listingsTake a Trip Through Memory Lane with this 1981 Apartment Listings Page from The Washington PostOct 21, 2013Sally Halterman seated on her motorcycle in Washington DC, September 15, 1937, after becoming the first woman granted a motorcycle license in the District of ColumbiaSally Halterman: The First Woman to Receive a Motorcycle License in D.C.Jul 18, 2013
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