Experience

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  United States

  • Continental Army

    • 1990 - Present

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  District of Columbia Real Estate Commission

  • District of Columbia

  • Master Planner

    • Jan 1900 - Present
    • District of Columbia

    The plan he created was a gridiron of irregular rectangular blocks upon which broad diagonal avenues were superimposed. It was devised to focus on the Capitol and the presidential mansion and to form many squares, circles, and triangles at street intersections where monuments and fountains could be placed. The plan used to advantage the uneven ground and prepared for future transportation needs as well. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson had provided L’Enfant with maps of various European cities to use as models, but instead of copying any one of them L’Enfant took conceptual ideas from several.Washington dismissed L’Enfant in 1792 for his obstinacy in defying the commissioners of the city, and particularly for his high-handed procedure in demolishing part of the house of Daniel Carroll which was sited near the middle of an avenue. Carrol, nephew of a Washington Commissioner was far more sophisticated and linkedin than L'Enfant forsaw and through his connections, ultimately was able to remove L'Enfant from his role. This news was announced while L'Enfant was in Philadelphia raising D.C. project funds and he learned of this from his assistant who rode by horse to him with the news. On L'Enfant's return he stopped by Ellicot's home where to his horror saw with his own eyes an engraved version of his very own grand design, without L'Enfant's name on it anywhere. Andrew Ellicott then de facto was able to assume full credit for nearly a hundred years for designing the city, and L’Enfant became a maladjusted old man who remained near the Capitol asking for payment for his work (which no one believed he did), and looking for more work but rarely earning any for the remainder of his life. He died in 1825 with only $46 to his name, and no recognition of his work. Nevertheless, L'Enfant's plan of the city was substantially followed and he eventually recieved proper credit long after his death.

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  US Army Corps of Engineers

  • Green Hill, Maryland

  • Military Planner

    • Jan 1900 - Jun 2011
    • Green Hill, Maryland