The Foggy Bot­tom His­toric Dis­trict sits on approx­i­mately three acres in the heart of the nation’s cap­i­tal. First plat­ted in 1768, Foggy Bot­tom soon became the site of the city’s light indus­try and its near-by fac­to­ries encour­aged a clus­ter of working-class homes which are pre­served and lived in today.

In the nine­teenth and early twen­ti­eth cen­turies, Irish, Ger­man and African Amer­i­can labor­ers helped shape Foggy Bot­tom, and the rest of Wash­ing­ton, shar­ing a pride of crafts­man­ship and the dream of a bet­ter life in America.

Early res­i­dences were indi­vid­u­ally con­structed flat-fronted, nar­row brick row houses some of which were built by well-known archi­tects such as A. H. Beers and Nor­man Grimm. The area is listed on the National Reg­is­ter of His­toric Places.

Today, the his­toric dis­trict is what you see — a quiet enclave of pri­vate res­i­dences. The whole of Foggy Bot­tom includes major insti­tu­tions, muse­ums, the John F. Kennedy Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts, the State Depart­ment, the Water­gate, and George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity to name a few. Wel­come and enjoy the jour­ney through our neighborhood.