Robert Benedetto, Jane Donovan, Kathleen Duvall

The A to Z of Washington, D.C.

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1791, Pierre Charles L'Enfant was hired as city planner of what would become Washington, D.C. However, after little more than a year, L'Enfant was dismissed after a dispute erupted involving the destruction of a mansion on Capitol Hill belonging to wealthy landowner Daniel Carroll that interfered with L'Enfant's vision of what would become our nation's capital. The original city surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, and his assistant, Benjamin Banneker, were asked to carry out the construction of the city using the L'Enfant Plan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780810855090
• ISBN-10: 0810855097
• Artikelnr.: 21281314

Autorenporträt

By Robert Benedetto; Jane Donovan and Kathleen DuVall

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Maps Part 4 Chronology Part 5 Introduction Part 6 THE DICTIONARY Part 7 Bibliography Part 8 Appendix 1: Washington
D.C.
at a Glance Part 9 Appendix 2: Washington History Collections Part 10 Appendix 3: Calendar of Annual Events Part 11 Appendix 4: Mayors
Governors
and Founding Commissioners Part 12 About the Authors