Foggy Bottom

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Foggy Bottom
Neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Top: Corcoran School of Art (left) and U.S. Department of Interior (right); middle: Monroe-Adams House (left), George Washington University (center), The Octagon House (right); bottom: American Red Cross (left), and Foggy Bottom–GWU station (right)
Country	United States
District	Washington, D.C.
Quadrant	Northwest
Ward	2

Foggy Bottom is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, located in the city's northwest quadrant. It stretches west of the White House towards the Potomac River, north of the National Mall, east of Georgetown, south of the West End neighborhood and west of Downtown D.C.

The neighborhood is best known for hosting the headquarters of the U.S. Department of State, for which the name "Foggy Bottom" is commonly used as a metonym. It is also home to federal agencies and international institutions, including the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund; the core of the neighborhood is occupied by George Washington University.

Within greater Foggy Bottom, there is a four block Historic District with modest row houses and alleys dating from as early as the 1870s and housed working class Irish, German and African Americans during the historic period of 1860-1915. ^[1]