Washington Monument is an obelisk shaped building within the National Mall in Washington, D C, built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and the first President of the United States .
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At his death in 1799, he left a critical legacy: Washington Monument was the unchallenged public icon of American military and civic patriotism.
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Washington Monument was identified with the Federalist Party, which lost control of the national government in 1800 to the Jeffersonian Republicans, who were reluctant to celebrate the hero of the opposition party.
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The citizens of Baltimore had chosen him in 1814 to build one of the first monuments to George Washington originally planned for the former courthouse square in their port city, and he had designed a tall elaborately decorated Greek column with balconies, surmounted by a statue of the President.
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Washington Monument's design called for a circular colonnaded building 250 feet in diameter and 100 feet high from which sprang a four-sided obelisk 500 feet high, for a total elevation of 600 feet .
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The top of the portico of the building would feature Washington Monument standing in a chariot holding the reins of six horses.
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Washington Monument was originally intended to be located at the point at which a line running directly south from the center of the White House crossed a line running directly west from the center of the U S Capitol on Capitol Hill.
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Washington Monument who is great in the battlefield looks upward to the generalship of Washington.
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Washington Monument who grows wise in counsel feels that he is imitating Washington.
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Washington Monument underwent an extensive restoration project between the years of 1998 and 2001.
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Washington Monument continued to be plagued by problems after the earthquake, including in January 2017 when the lights illuminating it went out.
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Washington Monument was arrested and charged with vandalism but pleaded not guilty in court.
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Washington Monument is filled with ironwork, consisting of its stairs, elevator columns and associated tie beams, none of which supports the weight of the stonework.
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Washington Monument is served by Federal Triangle metro station and Smithsonian metro station.
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Washington Monument viewed from the Iwo Jima Memorial in neighboring Virginia.
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Washington Monument viewed from a window in the Blue Room of the White House.
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