Overbeck Lecture- Looking at L’Enfant Plan in New Light

On Monday, November 13, 2017, 7:30 p.m. – Capitol Hill residents live every day with the physical interpretation of Peter L’Enfant’s 1791 plan for the City of Washington: the broad avenues ending in vistas, the hill that provides an overlook to the rest of the city’s monumental core, and the open green spaces that offer respite from streets lined with buildings. (more…)