Plan of the City Intended for the Permanent Seat of the Government of the United States, Detail of Presidents Park

This detail is of a section of a reproduction of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the city of Washington, D.C. was printed by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Office (now the Office of Coast Survey in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in 1887, during President Grover Cleveland's administration. LEnfants plan called for a large executive mansion, called the Presidents House on the map with a sizable park to the south, which is shown in this close-up image.