I am among the many journalists, tour guides and travel book authors guilty of describing the Washington Monument as “the world’s tallest free-standing masonry structure.” At 555 feet 5 ...

There’s a new development that’s aiming to replace the Washington Monument as the tallest building in the Washington, D. C. area. A group headed by Clemente Development Company and a Saudi ...

Besides being the currently-tallest office building in ... II may trump all other high rise office buildings in the D.C. area, but the Washington Monument still tops it, at 555 feet.

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 ... charged with building the monument ...

The Washington Monument, the Empire State Building ... At 102 stories, it’s no longer the tallest building in the country—that title goes to the nearby One World Trade Center—but it ...

Putting an end to the long string of tallest buildings dedicated to God, the Washington Monument was erected to honor the United States’ first president. Because of funding difficulties that ...

It's the tallest building in Washington, D.C. and it honors the first U.S. president, George Washington. Here are a few more Washington Monument facts to celebrate the anniversary of its ...

Despite the shrinkage, it is still the world's tallest obelisk and by far Washington DC's tallest structure. Made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, the monument to the first US president ...

At 470 feet tall, the building reaches higher than any building in the DMV other than the 555-foot Washington Monument, eclipsing Rosslyn's recently delivered 387-foot CEB Tower. It could soon ...

In September, the Washington Monument reopened with pomp and circumstance only seen in the Nation’s Capital. The tallest building in Washington closed in the summer of 2016 due to the unreliable ...