The Washington Monument, a top tourist destination in Washington D.C., closed Tuesday due to extreme heat warnings. Visitors ...

The Little-Known Story of the First Washington Monument A stone tower in western Maryland, the structure predates the obelisk on the National Mall by more than two decades. Dorvall Bedford.

The Washington Monument will be closed for a third day in a row on Wednesday, June 25, as temperatures continue to climb in ...

Soaring temperatures in the D.C. region has shuttered the towering Washington Monument through Tuesday, as the District ...

Tuesday will be the hottest day of the week, with highs expected to reach nearly 100 degrees and feels-like temperatures up ...

Building the Washington Monument 04:19. 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 ...

The Washington Monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885, the day before the first president’s 153rd birthday. ( The surprising, art-filled tale of the Lincoln Memorial.

Dangerous heat closed the Washington Monument, which lies in the heart of the nation’s capital, as the region experiences intense temperatures. In an alert on its website, the National Park ...

President Donald Trump is planning to visit a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday.

The Washington Monument. L’Enfant’s initial framework for Washington was largely ignored for decades, as the district remained in an undeveloped state of chaos at the end of the 19th century. ...