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A print of Pierre L'Enfant's 1791 "plan of the city intended for the Permanent Seat of the Government of the United States" that hangs on our office wall includes a "Grand Avenue, 400 feet in breadth, and about a mile in length, bordered with gardens, ending in a slope from the houses on either side. This avenue leads to the monument A" (the equestrian statue of George Washington that was supposed to go where the Washington Monument is today and ended up in Washington Circle instead) "and connects the Congress Garden with the President's Park." Over the decades the Mall has been changed and even defaced (with temporary office buildings during WWII) but the concept of a huge open space in this location has been there since the beginning. Charlene Bickford First Federal Congress Project George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 202-676-6777 202-496-9055 (fax)
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