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 ...

A rumor has been floating around the internet for many years claiming that the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., has "satanic" dimensions. "It's all evil. The Washington Monument ...

In a town full of monuments, there's one that stands above them all. Paul Goldberger, professor of design and architecture at the New School in New York, calls the Washington Monument, in our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2016-03-05T23:01:06-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/330/20160305231854002_hd.jpgJohn Steele Gordon talked about his book Washington’s Monument: And the ...

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.

WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - A man has been taken into custody after the Washington Monument was vandalized late on Tuesday, police said, adding that the area around the base of the monument ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.--The last work of the season on the Washington Monument was done to-day, and for the rest of the Winter the structure will remain at its present height of 410 feet.