In 1791, President George Washington appointed French architect Pierre L'Enfant to create a grand design for the new capitol city. His designed called for grid streets traveling north to south and east to west while sweeping avenues crossed through the city diagonally. Where the diagonal avenues intersected with both the north/south and east/west streets, plazas were to created to honor great citizens. L'Enfant's plan led to the Washington DC we now know, from the grand Pennsylvania Avenue to the many Plazas where visitors seek refuge from the hustle and bustle of city life. A large replica of the plan can be seen in one of the plazas created by the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street. Freedom Plaza, constructed in 1980, has the plan forever depicted in stone across the plaza. (Photo: February 16, 2009)
In 1791, President George Washington appointed French architect Pierre L'Enfant to create a grand design for the new capitol city. His designed called for grid streets traveling north to south and east to west while sweeping avenues crossed through the city diagonally. Where the diagonal avenues intersected with both the north/south and east/west streets, plazas were to created to honor great citizens. L'Enfant's plan led to the Washington DC we now know, from the grand Pennsylvania Avenue to the many Plazas where visitors seek refuge from the hustle and bustle of city life. A large replica of the plan can be seen in one of the plazas created by the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street. Freedom Plaza, constructed in 1980, has the plan forever depicted in stone across the plaza. (Photo: February 16, 2009)
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