The Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, gave Congress or the president the authority to establish national monuments on federal land as a means of protecting ...

Preparations are underway for a military parade Saturday in Washington, D.C., celebrating the Army's 250th anniversary that ...

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

Nicholas Grunauer, president of the Crossroads Community Association, told The Star that the Washington Square Park plan ...

Three years after the laying of the Washington Monument’s cornerstone in 1848, Pope Pius IX and the Vatican answered a call to aid in the construction of the obelisk honoring the first American ...

A Stone Age circular monument in England is even older than Stonehenge, raising the possibility that Stonehenge's creators used it as inspiration, a new study finds. When researchers radiocarbon ...

Like the Thalians, the Washington Monument itself has also "been through it," as the kids say. Construction began in 1848 but stopped in 1854 when the group in charge of the project ran out of money.

1880: Construction resumes. 1884: Finished at 555 feet, 5⅛ inches, the tallest building in the world at the time. You can find the National Park Service’s complete Washington Monument ...