Foggy Bottom isn’t foggy. Everyone thinks it used to be and that it was named for the mist that settled in this low-lying area of Washington, DC, when DC was grassy, wet and swampy and not the sparkling grand city that makes this nation proud.
Maybe it’s the nearby location of the U.S. State Department and the imagination of novelists making DC home who create spies in their midst. To be sure, Foggy Bottom is nestled near the Potomac River, east of Georgetown, and is a funky little enclave where you can walk to some of the finest of DC dining. Put your feet up on the adjacent chair outside on a sunny day, or dress to the nines and walk to the Kennedy Center for opera, theater, concerts, or to view the gifts of nations before settling in for cocktails and seafood overlooking the river at sunset.
Got kids? The Kennedy Center schedules regular free shows for all ages. And, many of the Foggy Bottom condos for sale sport private patios and courtyards hidden from street view and safe for children playing.
Gaze at the view of the Watergate, sloping along the river, linked forever in history to political scandal, but, really, a spacious, luxurious place to call home. Your Foggy Bottom neighbors will include members of Congress and other powerful politicos, journalists, lawyers, and doctors and professors from George Washington University and its hospital.
Walk to the Georgetown waterfront for dinner or a nightclub on M Street, NW, when you lease a Foggy Bottom condo for rent. Or, take advantage of your location on the Metro subway’s orange line and jet to the next stop west into north Arlington, VA, for ethnic fare, music or Ballston Mall.
Go east on the Metro if your job is in downtown DC. You’ll be two stops from Metro Center, transfer point to the red line and points more northwest in DC and to Maryland, never mind savoring, in this burgeoning area, some of the city’s hottest restaurants and new business locations. Two stops away is the National Mall. Fade into a world centuries or thousands of years ago when you visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian or its Museum of National History where dinosaurs roam.
Stroll to work at the U.S. Department of the Interior, World Bank, Office of Personnel Management or American Red Cross headquarters. Even if you don’t work there, you’ll feel the stimulation of finely-tuned minds while night time can be the soft, gentle breezes from the river, watering your planter of geraniums on your wrought-iron terrace or watching the snow fall while you warm by a fire.
Foggy Bottom, an historic district, offers mid- and high-rise condominiums as well as converted townhouses. Imagine when it was a center of industry—glass plants and breweries—as you stop at your condo’s front desk and are greeted by name, perhaps a glass of wine waiting for you as neighbors congregate in the lobby of faux gas lamps and nibble on foie gras on a Friday night.
Make a Foggy Bottom condo for vacation rental your haven. Ease into this quiet and heady part of DC. Lease a Foggy Bottom condo for rent for short- or long-term business whether you work in the neighborhood or elsewhere in DC, nearby VA or MD.
Buy a Foggy Bottom condo for sale and you’ll plant a strong stake as a solid investment in prime real estate. Equally important, you’ll toast the lovely land around you and the refuge you call home. |
