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 ...

The Washington Monument is open to the public for the first time in nearly three years. The obelisk was closed for renovations after a 2011 earthquake left it unsafe for public visits.

In July 1827, residents of Boonsboro, Maryland, built the majority of the Washington Monument in just one day. Dorvall Bedford On the morning of July 4, 1827, residents of Boonsboro, Maryland ...

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 ...

damaged the Washington Monument enough that to repair it, the tower had to be wrapped in scaffolding. That gave surveyors access to the very top of the structure. With $15 million in repairs ...

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.

The 1915 Centennial Time Capsule was one of two time capsules discovered during the renovation of Baltimore’s Washington Monument, the first to honor George Washington. The monument has been ...