Urban planner Pierre L’Enfant designed Washington, D.C. on an orderly street grid divided into four quadrants, with numbered streets running north-south and letters going east-west. The whole thing is centered on the Capitol Building, which has marked the exact middle with a neat little marble compass that has been slightly worn down by two centuries of foot traffic.
Congress and the Architect of the Capitol originally intended to bring together a hallowed tomb directly beneath the marker, and reinter George Washington’s corpse from Mount Vernon to the exact city center. They designed the Crypt with a 10-foot-wide hole in the ceiling to illuminate the space with natural light and allow visitors in the Rotunda to peer down at the heart of…
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