1-345-875 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The National Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA, 1855. Begun in 1848, the Washington Monument was not completed until 1884. The colonnade, which was intended to house statues of thirty heroes of the War of Independence in the original design, was never built. A print from the History and Topography of the United States of North America, by John Howard Hinton, Volume 2, Samuel Walker, Boston, 1855.