Show LEnfant L'Enfant Planned Open Space in Washington Mall tan was originally the name of the mallet used In playing pall mall a 11 game in which n a ball was driven with Uh a u mallet In time moll mall was applied to the same name Itself and by e extension extension ex ex- tension to the where the game w i pin played red Thus Pall Mall pronounced pro pru- pell-mell pell a n famous street In London received Its Us name from ruin the fact that thit the site was formerly a n pall pall- mall alley III r In the tile United States The Cite Mali is s applied specifically to a strip of fund l lying Iving ing h between the capitol and the tits Washington monument It U l Is t bOl bounded on en Um tile east by hy the capitol grounds on In the south by Maryland avenue and B Street So Southwest on the north h by Pennsylvania avenue and P P. Street Northwest and on the west westby westby westby by by Seventeenth street It Includes the botanic garden East Seaton park West Kest Seaton park parI Henry Smithsonian grounds a agricultural tural grounds and the the monument grounds In the original plans prepared pre pre- pared by the French engineer 1 LEn En Enfa En fa font nt and approved ed by Washington the Mall was was to he 1600 1000 feet teet wIde wido and was to present an en unobstructed gln from the monument to the cap cap- Itol itoh This plan was departed from and md there are now a Q number of ot build buildings ings on th the Mall LEnfant L'Enfant did not use nse the name Mall on his maps of Washington ton On the ori original inal LEnfant L'Enfant LEn font fant map roup n OR as well as on the maps of at Ij and ond 1822 2 this area aren Is designated Appropriation No o 2 After those I dates g I the he name nime Mall lall appears regularly regularly regu regu- In connection with the area in question Pathfinder Magazine |