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Europe in 1920. After
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intended. He examined which of L'Enfant's planned effects had been lost through subsequent development, including implementation of the 1901 Senate Park
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In his writings Peets carefully analyzed
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for what he saw as their conventionality or inappropriateness. Peets's papers are in the collections of the
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