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He first wrote Washington in September 1789 offering his services to design the future federal city. L’Enfant is most remembered for his work with George Washington to design the new federal city that became Washington, D.C. In 1788, L’Enfant received a commission to remodel Federal Hall when New York was chosen as the first location of the new federal government under the Constitution. L’Enfant went on to design the insignia and diploma for the newly established Society of Cincinnati, a fraternity of Continental Army officers.Īfter his discharge in January 1784, L’Enfant moved to New York City and started work as an architect, designing the General Montgomery Monument and the new alter for St. This influential event gave him enough congressional favor to promote him to the rank of major in May 1783. In April 1782, L’Enfant secured work on his first architectural project in the United States, designing a hall in Philadelphia for the French ambassador’s celebrations of the French Dauphin, Louis XVI. After his release and short stint on parole in July 1781, he continued serving in the Continental Army in the engineer corps. L’Enfant sustained a serious leg injury during the siege of Savannah in October of 1779 and was later taken as a prisoner of war during the battle for Charleston in May 1780. He would go on to serve as an Officer in the Army Corp of Engineers under George Washington at Valley Forge and Casimir Pulaski at Savannah. In September 1776, L’Enfant, as a Lieutenant of Infantry in the French Colonial Troops, offered his service to the American cause in the Revolutionary War. Spending his childhood in Paris, L’Enfant eventually went on to study under his father at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Scultpure. L’Enfant was born August 2, 1754, in Paris to artist Pierre L’Enfant and Marie Charlotte Leullier. Though today he is commonly referred by his French birth name, Pierre, L’Enfant referred to himself as “Peter,” the anglicized version of his name, after coming to America to fight in the Revolutionary War. Noted as one of the most influential architects and city planners in American history, Pierre “Peter” Charles L’Enfant is most famous for designing the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.