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

The Washington Monument, a soaring tribute in the heart ... Despite the celebratory start to the project, construction ceased in 1854 because of a lack of funds and the death of Mills the ...

As construction proceeded ... Party loyalists reportedly broke into the Washington Monument site, absconding with “the Pope’s Stone” and throwing it in the nearby Potomac River.

Construction began in 1848 and was painfully ... "No one person could give more than a dollar to the Washington Monument, because they wanted it to be a monument of the people," Litterst said.

The squares will be closed during construction, but access to the ... with a connection to the Fourth of July. As the first monument to Washington, its cornerstone was laid July 4, 1815, rather ...

Freemasons played a significant role in the American Revolution; George Washington was a freemason, as was Dr. Joseph Warren, a hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The masons helped to lead the ...

Then, between 1856 and 1876, with the Civil War, construction largely ended altogether. This Tuesday, July 3, 2007, photo shows the skyline of Washington, D.C., including the Washington Monument ...

The 100th anniversary of the tower’s construction fell between ... says he prefers the Boonsboro monument to the more famous one in Washington, D.C. In 1973, the monument was added to the ...

This month marks the 139th anniversary of the Washington Monument with construction wrapping up on the D.C. landmark in December of 1884. The 39 years it took to build the world’s tallest stone ...

And so, only the obelisk was built.” An engraving of Robert Mills’ original design for the Washington Monument. (Library of Congress) Construction began in 1848 and was painfully slow due to ...