Garden enthusiast Heather Hacking loves when you share what’s growing on. Reach out at [email protected], and ...

The Washington Monument decorated with Christmas lights stands out in the early morning sky in view from Charles Street. Andrea Carros Schrenk, an instructor at the Pennsylvania Institute of ...

The best view in the District and one of the city's signature tourist draws returned to duty Monday when the obelisk reopened after $15 million in repairs following the 2011 earthquake.

The view from the western side of the museum is spectacular. It includes the western end of the National Mall, the World War II Memorial, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History ...

At the Washington Monument, I overheard tourists asking an important question, one that gets to the very root of our national identity: Is this the end of the line? Also: Why is it shaped like that?

The District's beloved Washington Monument is closed for tours as temperatures continue to rise across the D.C. area, with heat index values expected to reach up to 110 degrees.

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In our nation's capital one monument stands above them all: a 555-foot-tall marble obelisk that ended up the perfect expression of what our first president was, and still is, in the minds of the ...

See photos of the lighting of the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon on December 5, 2024.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.--The Washington monument is 100 feet higher than it was in August, 1880, and the rapidity with which the shaft can be built is dependent, in the working ...

Nobody celebrates the Fourth of July like the nation’s capital. Whether you are going it alone, looking for an adventure, ...

The completion of the Washington Monument has at least the advantage of taking that structure off our minds. Now that it is done it looks no worse than it looked before it was done, while its ...