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    The L'Enfant Plan for the city of Washington is the urban plan developed in 1791 by Major Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant for George Washington, the first...
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    baroque styled plan for Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. His work is known today as the L'Enfant Plan which inspired plans for other...
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    Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, the architect and planner who first designed a street layout for the capital city (see L'Enfant Plan). It was dedicated in...
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    capital of the United States, was planned under French-American architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant. Under the L'Enfant plan, the original District of Columbia...
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    Monument, defined as a principal axis in the L'Enfant Plan for the city of Washington. However, a 2010 NPS plan for the Mall contains maps that show the Mall's...
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    Commissioners that L'Enfant had not been able to have the city plan engraved and had refused to provide him with the original plan (of which L'Enfant had prepared...
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    following year. In addition, the statue is a contributing property to the L'Enfant Plan and the Lafayette Square Historic District, a National Historic Landmark...
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    located on the eastern edge of the L'Enfant Plan. The circle is a result of a gap in the original L'Enfant Plan. The plan ended where east-west O Street and...
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  • Charles L'Enfant represents Washington, D.C., in the U.S. Capitol Building. L'Enfant was a French-American military engineer who designed the basic plan for...
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  • No. 15 of the original L'Enfant Plan for Washington, D.C., after Andrew Ellicott had replaced Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant as architect of the city...
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    ready. Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant was given the task of creating the city plan for the new capital city. L'Enfant chose Jenkin's Hill as the site...
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    city plan. The L'Enfant Plan featured broad streets and avenues radiating out from rectangles, providing room for open space and landscaping. L'Enfant based...
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  • the Capital, L'Enfant saw the task as far more grandiose, believing he was not only locating the capital, but also devising the city plan and designing...
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    End is so named because it was the westernmost part of the original L'Enfant Plan for the city of Washington, before the annexation of Georgetown. It...
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    Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, and the L'Enfant Plan. Both the district and plan are listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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  • and civil engineer credited with planning the city of Washington, D.C. SS Pierre L'Enfant, a 1943 cargo ship L'Enfant Plaza, a complex of office buildings...
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    improve navigation on the Potomac. Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, designing a master plan for the development of the capital city, provided for the...
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  • the new City of Washington was designed by Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant. As a planned city, Washington was modeled in the Baroque style and incorporated...
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    collective listing of Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., and the L'Enfant Plan. Ownership of the monument was transferred in 1973 to the Architect...
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    the famous McMillan Commission Plan for redesigning Washington according to a revised version of the original L’Enfant plan. Olmsted Point in Yosemite and...
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    The Square was included in the 1791 L'Enfant Plan, which planned the layout of the nation's new capital. The plans were slightly altered during the following...
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  • Plan (1941) Jackson Plan (1822) Norweto (1986) Madrid Metropolitan Plan (1996) County of London Plan (1943) Greater London Plan (1944) L'Enfant Plan (1791)...
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  • as amended (see L'Enfant Plan). In late February 1792, President George Washington dismissed L'Enfant, who had failed to have his plan published and was...
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    seen in the rationalizing, urbanistic layout of L'Enfant Plan of Washington and in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 in New York. The historic eastern part...
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    L'Enfant Plaza station is an intermodal transit station complex located at L'Enfant Plaza in the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood of Washington,...
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    located in Northwest D.C. The street was laid out as part of the 1791 L'Enfant Plan, which served as the original blueprint for the city. The street begins...
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    were already completed and in use by 1800 as called for by the 1791 L'Enfant Plan for the City of Washington, although the city was not formally chartered...
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    The monument is also a contributing property to the National Mall and L'Enfant Plan, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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  • . . ." (see: L'Enfant Plan). (Shortly after L'Enfant prepared this plan, its subject received the name "City of Washington".) His plan stated near its...
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    (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's 1791 "Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of the United States ... " (see L'Enfant Plan), Andrew Ellicott...
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