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[1] FOGGY_080907_002.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[2] FOGGY_080907_010.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[3] FOGGY_080907_019.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[4] FOGGY_080907_024.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
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[9] FOGGY_080907_057.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[10] FOGGY_080907_063.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[11] FOGGY_080907_072.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?) $The United Church \ Die Vereinigte Kirche About The United Church Today the United Church has tall office buildings, apartments, hotels, shopping centers, and a major university and medical center as its neighbors. Not much remains to show that this neighborhood once had family homes, schools, small shops, and churches and was the center of Washington's German community. In 1786 this was "Hamburg," a settlement founded by the German Jacob Funck. In 1833 the German Evangelical Concordia Congregation built a church on the corner of 20th and G Streets, NW, a site set aside in Funck's original plan. A few years later, in 1846, a small group of Methodists who had been meeting in the Union Fire Hall at 19th and H Streets, NW, built their own church: Union Methodist Episcopal Church at 814 20th Street, NW. In January 1975, after many months of prayer and discussion, Concordia United Church of Christ and Union United Methodist Church merged to become The United Church - Die Vereinigte Kirche. In 1975, two Protestant churches in the center of Washington, DC, two blocks apart, belonging to different denominations and having different traditions and members of different ethnic backgrounds, started on a joint ecumenical journey. Today, twenty-five years later, The United Church is a living testimony that there can be unity enriched by great diversity. We offer English and German language services. We are engaged in neighborhood and community concerns and, through various programs, we try to help solve social problems in the inner city. The above is from http://www.theunitedchurch.org/about/index.htm -- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, December 14, 1978 Dedicated May 15, 1892, this was the second church built on this site by the Concordia Lutheran Evangelical German congregation, founded January 17, 1833; the lot was sold to the German Lutherans by Jacob Funck in 1768. John Philip Sousa was baptized here, November 26, 1854. From 1898, some services were held in English, predominantly so as of 1933. As office buildings replaced residences, the congregation merged with the Union United Methodist congregation, as the United Church, January 1, 1975.$	[12] FOGGY_080907_083.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
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1. FOGGY_080907_019.JPG: Union Methodist Episcopal Church 1846 - 1910 1846, July 1 -- cornerstone laid for the Union Methodist Church, founded February 13, 1846, in the Union Fire Hall, that stood on the southeastern corner of 19th and H Street, NW. 1862 -- served as a hospital during the Civil War, and in 1863, a shelter for the Union Army. 1910 -- front moved forward, stained glass window installed. 1954-55 -- during renovation, services held in the Circle Theater. Membership was boosted by 1912 relocation of George Washington University on G St; World War I, II; and IMF and World Bank presence since 1950. 1975, January 1 -- merged with Concordia Church, 1920 G St NW, as the United Church, as office buildings replaced residences. 1985 -- leased to the George Washington University -- Union Methodist Episcopal Church From GWUEncyc Title: Union Methodist Episcopal Church Address: 812-14 20th Street, N.W. Square and lot, bordering streets: NA (H, I, 20th, 21st) Architect: Unknown Date of construction: 1843-46 Original owner: Unknown Description: Perhaps the most unique building on campus, this church is home to the School of Media and Public Affairs' Electronic Media program. The cornerstone for the Union Methodist Church was laid July 1, 1843 and the church was founded February 13, 1846. After it was construction, church administrators began renting the building for use as a private school for a neighboring church. The building was also used as a hospital during the Civil War. The stained glass windows were installed in 1910. By the 1930s GW students were filling both the choir and the pews, as the university move to Foggy Bottom in 1912 had brought new members to the church. The church provided a social room for students, and even rooms for classes, meetings and music rehearsals. The 1960s and ‘70s brought social changes that affected the church. Over time the church's congregation dwindled and the church merged with [ the Concordia Church ] (1920 G Street, N.W.) January 1, 1975. In 1985 the University began leasing the building from the United Church. An article in the October 30, 2000 Hatchet, reproduced below, suggested that ghosts inhabit the building. ... The above was from http://encyclopedia.gwu.edu/gwencyclopedia/index.php/Union_Methodist_Episcopal_Church
2. FOGGY_080907_072.JPG: The United Church \ Die Vereinigte Kirche About The United Church Today the United Church has tall office buildings, apartments, hotels, shopping centers, and a major university and medical center as its neighbors. Not much remains to show that this neighborhood once had family homes, schools, small shops, and churches and was the center of Washington's German community. In 1786 this was "Hamburg," a settlement founded by the German Jacob Funck. In 1833 the German Evangelical Concordia Congregation built a church on the corner of 20th and G Streets, NW, a site set aside in Funck's original plan. A few years later, in 1846, a small group of Methodists who had been meeting in the Union Fire Hall at 19th and H Streets, NW, built their own church: Union Methodist Episcopal Church at 814 20th Street, NW. In January 1975, after many months of prayer and discussion, Concordia United Church of Christ and Union United Methodist Church merged to become The United Church - Die Vereinigte Kirche. In 1975, two Protestant churches in the center of Washington, DC, two blocks apart, belonging to different denominations and having different traditions and members of different ethnic backgrounds, started on a joint ecumenical journey. Today, twenty-five years later, The United Church is a living testimony that there can be unity enriched by great diversity. We offer English and German language services. We are engaged in neighborhood and community concerns and, through various programs, we try to help solve social problems in the inner city. The above is from http://www.theunitedchurch.org/about/index.htm -- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, December 14, 1978 Dedicated May 15, 1892, this was the second church built on this site by the Concordia Lutheran Evangelical German congregation, founded January 17, 1833; the lot was sold to the German Lutherans by Jacob Funck in 1768. John Philip Sousa was baptized here, November 26, 1854. From 1898, some services were held in English, predominantly so as of 1933. As office buildings replaced residences, the congregation merged with the Union United Methodist congregation, as the United Church, January 1, 1975.
3. FOGGY_080907_100.JPG: Construction project next to the GW hospital
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Wikipedia Description: Foggy Bottom
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Foggy Bottom is one of Washington, D.C.'s oldest 19th century neighborhoods. The neighborhood's name is thought to have been named because, as a low-lying area, fog (widespread in the swamps of early Washington) or industrial smoke tended to concentrate there. (Ironically, this setting was the original location for The United States Naval Observatory.) It is located to the west of downtown D.C. in the Northwest quadrant, bounded roughly by 17th Street to the east, Rock Creek Park to the west, Constitution Avenue to the south, and Pennsylvania Avenue to the north.

"Foggy Bottom" is often used as a metonym for the United States Department of State, whose Harry S Truman Building headquarters is located in the neighborhood. The main campus of George Washington University is also located in Foggy Bottom, as well as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Friendship Lodge Odd Fellows Hall, and the infamous Watergate Hotel, site of the Watergate burglaries which led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. George Washington University has grown significantly over the past decades and now covers much of the neighborhood. The neighborhood has numerous mid-rise apartment buildings.

Just on the edge of Foggy Bottom are the U.S. Department of Interior, the gigantic World Bank office building, Office of Personnel Management, Constitution Hall, American Red Cross headquarters, Federal Reserve Board, Pan American Health Organization, and Organization of American States.

Foggy Bottom was once a community of Irish, German, and Black laborers employed at the nearby breweries, glass plants, and the city gas works. These industrial facilities are also cited as a possible reason for the neighborhood's name, the "fog" being the smoke given off by the industries. The historic neighborhood is preserved and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Foggy Bottom area was the site of one of the earliest sett ...More...
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