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Recognizing that L’Enfant’s plan was slowly being diminished, the convention resulted in a call for a resolution that would install a design commission to guide future growth of the District.
with an address by Olmsted who called for the employment of landscape architects in the planning of the District. Seven years after the Exposition and in commemoration of the District’s centennial, the American Institute of Architects held their annual convention in D.C. The event popularized the City Beautiful movement and the development of French-inspired Beaux Arts principles including axial organization, symmetrical and balanced design, and a sense of grandeur. Meanwhile, more than 700 miles away, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition was taking place in Chicago, designed primarily by Olmsted and architect Daniel Burnham. The argument was part of a larger conflict regarding administration of Georgetown, which had resulted in the renaming of its streets in 1895 to adhere to L’Enfant’s organization of the District. Later, the Board of Trade would battle with the Georgetown Citizen’s Association, which wanted to culvert Rock Creek and fill the valley to increase real estate. Army Corps of Engineers proposed the development of the 1,000-acre Rock Creek Park, which was created by the Washington Board of Trade in 1890 and encompassed the 170-acre National Zoological Park, established a year previous. April 1865 - Photo by Matthew Brady, courtesy of the Library of Congress Dredging of the Potomac to improve navigation resulted in the slow reclamation of more than 700 acres of land that would eventually form the western section of the Mall. In 1874 Olmsted developed a densely wooded terrace to frame views of the Capitol from Union Square at the east end of the Mall, unifying the transition from the monumental statehouse to its park-like setting. as disorderly and confusing, included four distinct parks (only one was actually constructed) interconnected by curvilinear walks and drives. His treatment for the Mall, twenty years later criticized by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.
In 1851 landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing was commissioned to prepare designs for the National Mall, the Capitol grounds, and the White House. granted by Virginia was returned to the Commonwealth, thus leaving the capital city solely on land contributed by Maryland. In 1846, instigated by disagreements over slavery, the portion of D.C. The Potomac Flats that would become the Mall were malarial tidal swamps, Georgetown was used as dumping grounds, and the picturesque Rock Creek valley was an open sewer. Army Corps of Engineers and the Board of Public Works. Piecemeal development of the District occurred through the next several decades with much of the planning of parks and streets dictated by the U.S. View of Georgetown D.C., Washington, D.C. Ellicott expanded L’Enfant’s designated open spaces and suggested the appropriation of seventeen reservations totaling 541 acres for federal use. Though L’Enfant was eventually dismissed from the project, Ellicott, the surveyor, redrew his plan from memory, revised it, and developed a plan for subsequent development, performing at both practical and ceremonial levels. A picturesque greensward extending from the Capitol to the White House was to be lined by federal buildings. Where the orthogonal grid intersected the diagonal avenues, L’Enfant indicated fifteen parcels called reservations that would ensure the preservation of open space for public use, limit development, and serve as platforms for the display of monumental sculpture. Radiating from the Capitol and the White House, L’Enfant’s plan created a monumental core overlaid by a grid of streets and transected by wide diagonal avenues lined with trees, ornamented with sculpture, and visually connecting significant vistas. Inspired by planning principles borrowed from Milan, Paris, and Amsterdam, in 1791 L’Enfant developed a Baroque work of art that would symbolize the ideals of democracy and the nation’s emerging status in the world-one of only two largely intact Colonial-era city plans in America today (Savannah, GA being the other). L'Enfant Plan, 1791 - Image © Library of CongressĬarved from land donated by Maryland and Virginia and incorporating Georgetown and Alexandria, the boundaries of the District were marked by 40 stones set by surveyor Andrew Ellicott and freed African American astronomer Benjamin Banneker.
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