(Credit: Harrison Design/Courtesy NCPC) It has been a while, at least a century to be precise, since the last time Washington, DC, received a monumental makeover. Washington, the eponymous city of our first President, was envisioned by our Founding Fathers to be a new Rome. Indeed, particularly in the dreams of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the Rome by the Potomac was intended to eclipse the old Rome by the Tiber. The first republic since antiquity, the United States was deserving of a city befitting its grand aspirations – a grand city upon a grand hill, erected upon a continent of virtually endless possibility. In the generation immediately succeeding Washington’s, there was a movement, supported by the aging founders who lived into that next chapter…
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