The Christian Heurich Brewing Company was a Washington, D.C. brewery founded in 1872 and incorporated by Christian Heurich in 1890. Originally located near Dupont Circle, it moved to a larger site in Foggy Bottom in 1895 after a major fire, on the Potomac River site where the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts now stands.
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The Christian Heurich Brewing Company was a Washington, D.C., brewery founded in 1872 and incorporated by Christian Heurich in 1890.
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closed in 1956, "because of a decline in sales and because of the knowledge that the government would seek to acquire the site of the brewery for the approaches to the new Theodore Roosevelt Bridge.
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