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May 16, 2005
Is the Washington Monument an obelisk?
Posted at May 16, 2005 02:06 PM
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Yes. And it seems to have been intentionally designed so.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc72.htm
... the Civil War interrupted construction. When Lt.Col.Thomas L.Casey, Mills' successor, resumed the project in 1876, he redesigned the monument to resemble an unadorned Egyptian obelisk with a pointed pyramidion. The original design was greatly altered, producing an unembellished obelisk...
Posted by: Heather at May 21, 2005 10:50 PM
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