Topic: Washington Monument

Washington Monument gets $7.5M for repairs

A billionaire history buff has stepped forward to donate the $7.5 million matching gift that's needed to start repairing cracks near the top of the ...
The "Ship That Would Not Die" returned to the Charleston Harbor on the South Carolina coast today more than two years after it was moved for...
This post originally appeared at The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Under a big headline on the front page of The Washington Post last week came the...
This weekend we look at some recently released video taken inside the Washington Monument during the earthquake last August. From Indonesia we...

Billionaire Pays To Fix Washington Monument

First it was paying for panda sex (no, not like that!). Now philanthropist and shadowy billionaire David Rubenstein has thrown $7.5 million into...

Wash. Monument gets repair money

Billionaire helps Washington Monument fix . In this Sept. 28, 2011, file photo, Dave Megerle, a member of Wiss, Janney, Elstner, Associates (WJE) ...
The transformation of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will continue with a major project to renew the building's...

Preparing to check the monument

0 . Rigging is attached to the Washington Monument on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Rappelling engineers plan to perform a block-by-block inspection...

(good video) Washington Monument Quake

"(good video) Washington Monument Quake" is categorized as "local". This video was licensed from Grab Networks. For additional video content, click...
Debris falling upon their heads, panicked tourists ran for their lives from the Washington Monument during the August earthquake, according to a...