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After much menutial [_sic_] search for an eligible situation, prompted, as I may say, from a fear of being prejudiced in favor of a first opinion, I could discover no one so advantageously to greet the congressional building as is that on the west end of Jenkins heights, which stand as a pedestal waiting for a monument.... Some might, perhaps, require less labor to be made agreeable, but, after all assistance of arts, none ever would be made so grand.
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Presidential Palace, L'Enfant made his choice with the object, he says, of
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which are the three main qualities actually combined in the present White House. He selected a spot which Washington had himself noticed as a convenient one, at some distance from Congress, it is true, but that would not matter much, L'Enfant thought, with his old-world notions of etiquette, for
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Where and how, he once wrote to Alexander White,
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The grand avenue, he wrote,
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with a number of handsome monuments, a very characteristic one being a temple for national semireligious celebrations,
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It would also be a pantheon for the illustrious dead,
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A column, as yet never built, was
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The squares were to be allotted, one to each of the States forming the Union:
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The centre of each square will admit of statues, columns, obelisks, or any other ornaments ... to perpetuate not only the memory of such individuals whose counsels or military achievements were conspicuous in giving liberty and independence to this country, but also those whose usefulness hath rendered them worthy of general imitation, to invite the youth of succeeding generations to tread in the paths of those sages or heroes whom their country has thought proper to celebrate.