In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned Amer

This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington’s original vision for a grand national capital on the

In 1910 John Merven Carrère, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, “Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities.” The five e