Daniel H. Burnham, architect, planner of cities (1921)
Moore, Charles, 1855-1942, Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 232
son each had some part, andfor it EUicott made valuable suggestions; but the origin anddevelopment of the general scheme belong alone to LEnfant.^ The commissioners who had the general oversight of allmatters pertaining to the District of Columbia had decided * The Reinterment of Major Pierre… … THE UENFANT PLAN 131 on a system of streets running from north to south and fromeast to west. Upon this rectihnear arrangement LEnfantimposed those diagonal avenues, radiating from the Capitoland the White House, which give to Washington its distin-guishing feature. He also made disposition of the…
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 · City planning
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