In the late 1990s, when the surrounding maple trees were still saplings, the structure ... monument with no planter areas outside. The symbols imprinted and painted in the block base beneath the ...

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 ...

This is where Grady Sharp started with a small brick building, about 50 monument ... years was a woman who requested a 12-foot base with four monuments. One was for her and the other three for ...

The brick surface included a short spur leading to an older monument that used to sit at the base of the flagpole, where the new military branch markers were installed. The older monument ...