Main Street America
Pennsylvania Avenue, the most important street in the new federal city, was for many years one of its few paved roads, yet still a rough ride. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the city's original planner, had laid the avenue roughly following the city's oldest road, which connected the waterfront of Georgetown with the Eastern Branch riverfront. L'Enfant planned for the White House and Congress to view each other down a grand avenue, at a time when avenues were not known as common streets but meant a wide tree-lined approach to a destination. L'Enfant's vision for this vista was ignored and the Treasury building was built where it blocked the view.
President Kennedy's inaugural parade shows the view down the Avenue as it might have been.
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