The White House has broken ground on construction projects ordered by President Donald Trump to pave over the Rose Garden ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Washington Monument L’Enfant’s initial framework for Washington was largely ignored for decades, as the district remained ...

It wasn’t until the early 1830s that serious planning commenced for the Washington Monument, Washington’s first major memorial, which owed its origins to L’Enfant’s drawings. After the ...