In his master plan for the new city of Washington ... of the structure until Congress finally stepped up in 1876 by appropriating $200,000 to complete the monument. The Army Corps of Engineers ...

Six years later, the Washington National Monument ... A Theodore Roosevelt monument was planned in the 1920s, but Congress never gave it funding. After he was elected in the 1930s, Franklin ...

As the Washington Post reported, the move will come after Congress failed to act to approve ... who lobbied for the monument to be expanded, in a statement reported by the Post.

Some of the most iconic memorials that grace Washington, D.C., drawing millions of visitors every year, only narrowly survived being scrapped altogether. In 1791, Pierre L'Enfant drew up designs ...

George Washington ... Monument construction timeline here. Sources: The Department of Defense, Mount Vernon, National Park Service, U.S. Senate, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress ...