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 ...

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 reopening Thursday, after three years of renovations to modernize its elevator and construct a new security screening facility. The monument was built to honor George ...

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 Washington Monument is struck by lightning in many years, and sometimes multiple times, but to witness and photograph a direct strike is rare. I can speak from experience on the photography part.

and the 130-year-old Washington Monument will reopen Monday for the first time in nearly three years since an earthquake caused widespread damage. The memorial honoring George Washington has been ...

WASHINGTON -- Government surveyors have determined a new height for the Washington Monument that's nearly 10 inches shorter than what has been thought for more than 130 years, officials will ...

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 ...