On Dec. 6, 1884 — 36 years after construction had begun — the 3,300-pound aluminum capstone was placed atop the obelisk, making the Washington Monument, at 555 feet, the world’s tallest ...

Glenda Ford, left, takes selfie with best friend Charlene Phipps before the lighting of the Washington Monument Thursday night in Mount Vernon. The Baltimore holiday tradition included music ...

Casey then placed the 8.9-inch aluminum ... the Washington Monument embodies the awe, respect and gratitude the nation felt for its most essential Founding Father." The east side of the cap ...

On Dec. 6, 1884, in a ceremony that lasted 15 minutes, the aluminum capstone ... Every year after the Washington Monument’s completion, Chicago Colts player-manager Cap Anson and H.P. Burney ...

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 ...

A splash of blood-red paint on the Washington Monument (Photo: Nathan Howard via Getty Images) The Washington Monument was vandalized Tuesday in the U.S. capital, with an unnamed suspect swiftly ...

The Washington Monument was temporarily closed and a man was arrested Tuesday evening for allegedly vandalizing the monument with paint. Shaun Ray Deaton, 44, of Bloomington, Indiana, was arrested ...

The Washington Monument was temporarily closed after a man vandalized the national landmark on Tuesday evening with profanities written in red paint, according to U.S. Park Police. The unnamed ...

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 Washington Monument, completed in 1884, stands at 555 feet tall and was once the tallest structure in the world from 1884 to 1889 before it was overtaken in height by the Eiffel Tower in Paris.