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George Washington to Daniel Carroll of Duddlington
November 28, 1791
L'Enfant was engaged in a bitter dispute with Carroll, whose Capitol Hill house was under construction and extended six feet into where New Jersey Avenue would be built. In this letter Washington solved the stalemate in L'Enfant's favor, declaring that Carroll should remove the house immediately or finish it, but expect that it would be torn down later by the federal government. |