At the western end of the National Mall, the Washington Monument towers over our country’s capital. The 555-foot obelisk—a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramid-shaped top—was built to ...

The Washington Monument is one of the most recognizable ... This granite obelisk was one of the first significant monuments built in the U.S. and a tribute to the early Revolutionary War soldiers.

The area already boasted a large obelisk monument. In 1896, eleven years after the granite, 555-foot obelisk was built in ...

Thankfully I was able to make it happen, even without advanced planning. The Washington Monument was built to honor George ...

"Putting up barriers around open outdoor monuments was dumb shutdown theater," writes Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, "and they deserve to have it backfire on them." The Washington Monument ...

According to the website for Thalian Association Community Theatre, the stone was carved by Wilmington sculptor James ...