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As described above, the pattern of radiating avenues was 
joined and filled by a gridiron matrix of streets, which were 
numbered to the east and west and lettered to the north 
and south - excluding J Street, which L’Enfant omitted 
to avoid confusion with the letters l and J that were 
indistinguishable and often interchangeable at the time, 
according to a 1994 Washington Post Magazine article.
    
Although L’Enfant’s design became the basis for land 
sales, construction and planning, President Washington 
fired him a year after he was hired because L’Enfant “forged 
ahead regardless of his orders, the budget, or landowners 
with prior claims”. 
The design competition
In 1792, at Washington’s request, Secretary of State Thomas 
Jefferson announced an architectural competition to 
produce design drawings for the President’s House. 
 
Washington insisted that the building should be made 
of stone, so that it would have a more substantial 
appearance, much like the most important buildings in 
Europe. The young nation had never seen anything like it, 
and that was what Washington liked about it. The building 
was to be more than the home and office of the president; 
it was to be a symbol of the presidency.  A republic could 
not have a king’s palace, but the building must command 
respect from citizens in the United States and, just as 
importantly, foreign visitors who came to visit America’s 
leader.
    On July 16, 1792, President Washington examined at 
least six designs submitted in the President’s House 
architectural competition. The plans were quite varied. 
One of the designs was by James Hoban, an Irishman 
whom the president had met a year earlier in Charleston. A 
second plan was submitted by a mysterious man known 
only as “A.Z.”. Historians have speculated that Thomas 
Jefferson was the mystery designer, but records suggest 
that the architect in question was more likely John Collins, 
a builder from Richmond, Virginia. A third of the six 
designs is by James Dimond, a Maryland inventor.
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