L'Enfant

L'Enfant Plaza can be reached through Hazmat disposal site L5 from Mall Southwest, or from the irradiated Metro, which enters the Plaza through L'Enfant South. The plaza is populated by a large number of super mutants.

Layout
L'Enfant Plaza is a complex of one governmental and three commercial buildings, as well as the "La Promenade" underground shopping mall, in the Southwest section of Washington, D.C. The plaza is located south of Independence Avenue SW between 12th and 9th Streets SW (9th Street actually runs underneath the centers of the buildings on the easternmost side of the plaza). It was built perpendicular to L'Enfant Promenade, a north-south running street and pedestrian esplanade part of which is directly above 10th Street SW. The plaza is named for Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, the architect and planner who first designed a street layout for the capital city.

L'Enfant south district connects via Suffragette Way, intersecting with L'Enfant. Apart from a shopping district and an L'Enfant Cafe, there's an office building that once housed the Capitol Post newspaper (simply marked "Office" on the map). The building contains a few computers with the text of the articles that appear on the loading screens. To the west of the Capitol Post newspaper office is the L'Enfant Cafe (C). The cafe has a few dead raiders, two first aid boxes, some Buffout, and a mine box.

Madame Jealle's (location will mark on map as "Shop") is to the west of the L'Enfant Cafe.

Inhabitants
About 15 different super mutants are in the area, maybe even two or three overlords, depending on your level.

Notable loot

 * U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes, sniper rifle, and some other goodies in a makeshift camp under a partially collapsed overpass east of the plaza. (A)
 * Big Book of Science in a Pulowski Preservation shelter behind a building south of the plaza. (B)
 * In the basement of this building you find "Gibson's corpse", with a key and a note saying "Search the house!" The house is the Gibson house located in Minefield and the key opens the model house on the ground floor of the Gibson home.

Related quests

 * Searching for Cheryl

Appearances
L'Enfant appears only in Fallout 3

Behind the scenes

 * L'Enfant Plaza is a real-world complex of office buildings, a hotel, and an underground shopping mall in Washington, D.C.
 * Pierre Charles L'Enfant was the chief urban designer of the city of Washington, D.C. in 1791.

Bugs

 * Following the ledge behind the L'Enfant Metro all the way to the end, it is possible to fall through and view a banner that reads Quantum hidden within the building.{{Verify|FO3}]
 * After finding and looting Gibson's corpse early in the game, he can be found in the same place, alive and hostile to the player.