having as much trouble prying open American wallets as their male colleagues,” wrote John Lockwood in “The Men — and the Women — Who Built the Washington Monument.” In 1860, the women ...

Washington_Monument_1860-465x300 The Monument before the Civil War The Washington Monument has endured after its rather lengthy planning process, and it recently an earthquake. The monument is now ...

The Washington Monument is 55 feet wide at the base and ... (The proposed equestrian statue of Washington was not completed until 1860 and was placed near the present location of George Washington ...

Few structures represent the United States as powerfully as the Washington Monument. At the center of Washington, D.C., the impressive marble obelisk (555 feet tall and 55 feet wide) pays grand ...

Paul Goldberger, professor of design and architecture at the New School in New York, calls the Washington Monument, in our nation's capital, "the tallest, the simplest, the most straightforward ...

UPDATE: The Washington Monument will be closed today ... Matthew Brady took this photograph of the partially completed monument around 1860. The structure was finally completed in 1884.

Authorities did not say how long the restoration process would take. The Washington Monument was temporarily closed, police said, after a man vandalized the national landmark with profanities and ...

The plans for the structure began in 1835, as The Washington National Monument Society appointed bonded agents to collect funds from the public for construction of a monument to George Washington.

It wasn’t until the early 1830s that serious planning commenced for the Washington Monument, Washington’s first major memorial, which owed its origins to L’Enfant’s drawings. After the ...

The Washington Monument, a soaring tribute in the heart of the nation’s capital to George Washington, whose Abrahamic faith in American independence earned him the eternal distinction of Father ...