The renewal and modernization of L'Enfant's vision by both the Senate Park Commission and urban planners
The Senate Park Commission of 1901 gets considerable, and well deserved, notice. But the McMillan Commission 
did not weave the cloth it cut, nor did it accomplish all the things Miller claims of it.

reading of the urban-design intentions expressed in L'Enfant's manuscript plan for the city



This early map (Courtesy Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, 
21 x 26 cm., scale ca. 1:39,000, annotated in lead pencil on verso "1st printed edition of the L'Enfant plan", 
G3850 1792 .L4 Vault) as its logo, portrays the final version of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's plan of the 
city of Washington, and is one of the earliest printed maps of Washington. The map, published in Philadelphia 
in 1792, was engraved by Thackara and Vallance. They published this map several months before the November 
1792 publication of their larger (53 x 74 cm.) Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia 
that has become known as the official city plan.