It wasn’t until the early 1830s that serious planning commenced for the Washington Monument, Washington’s first major memorial, which owed its origins to L’Enfant’s drawings. After the ...

The Smithsonian Metro stop is closest to the monument. Visit the National Park Service's Washington Monument page for more information. Home to every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 ...

The best times to visit Washington, D.C., are from September ... look great against all those marble monuments. Second to fall is spring, which is also a mini high season thanks to the National ...

WASHINGTON — A new monument is in the works for the National Mall. Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed a law allowing the Women's Suffrage National Monument to be built. The bill was ...