L'Enfant, Washington DC – Antique Map Print
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Description
Few images capture their era like this antique map of L'Enfant, Washington DC. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
L'Enfant, Washington DC
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Washington was laid out under Pierre Charles L'Enfant beginning in 1791, and for its first decades it existed more on paper than on the ground. His broad diagonal avenues, including Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, cut across a rectangular street grid and met at circles and squares meant to give the new federal capital a grand European air. Congress first convened in the unfinished Capitol in 1800, and the population stayed small, with open fields and unpaved streets lying between government buildings. British troops burned the Capitol and the White House in 1814, and the slow rebuilding that followed gave the plan much of its present shape. Residents would have known the city as a government town of clerks, boarding houses, and political visitors rather than a commercial port.
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Washington DC |
| Original scan | 12,038 × 8,897 px · prints to 40 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | L'Enfant |
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