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The Washington Monument is a hollow Egyptian -style stone obelisk with a 500-foot-tall (152.4 m) column surmounted by a 55-foot-tall (16.8 m) pyramidion. Its walls are 15 feet (4.6 m) thick at its base and 11⁄2 feet (0.46 m) thick at their top.
12 Δεκ 2022 · The monument, according to NPS, is "555 feet and 5 1/8 inches tall. It is 55 feet wide at the base." That's 6,665 1/8 inches in height, with a base measuring 660 inches wide.
30 Οκτ 2024 · Washington Monument, obelisk in Washington, D.C., honouring George Washington, the first president of the United States. Constructed of granite faced with Maryland marble, the structure is 55 feet (16.8 metres) square at the base and 554 feet 7 inches (169 metres) high and weighs an estimated 91,000 tons.
The Washington Monument is over twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, which stands at 305 feet. - It’s also taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is 481 feet tall. - However, it’s not as tall as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which stands at 984 feet.
A large central obelisk, four faces and 150 meters high, would be placed on a circular building, 76 meters in diameter and 30 meters high, surrounded by a colonnade. The total height of the monument, therefore, was to reach 180 meters in height. The tip of the obelisk was slightly pointed.
The Washington Monument was complete, and it had surpassed the Cologne Cathedral to be the tallest building in the world at 555 feet, 5.125 inches. Inscribed on the aluminum cap, notable names and dates in the monument's construction are recalled, and on the east face, facing the rising sun, the Latin words "Laus Deo," which translate to ...
1 Ιουν 2023 · What Is the Height of the Washington Monument? The Washington Monument is 555 feet and 5⅛ inches (169.294 meters) tall from the base to the pyramidion, making it one of the tallest stone obelisks in the world, according to the Library of Congress .
